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- Before The Tide Takes Them
Before the Tide Takes Them
Part One of The Happisburgh Trilogy
A Norfolk village. A family touched by repeated loss. Questions that would not stay buried.
In our first episode of Places Remember, we travel to Happisburgh, where the deaths of several members of one family cast a long shadow over the name of Jonathan Balls. What emerged in 1846 raised disturbing questions about poison, suspicion and what those around him had witnessed.
Through an original audio drama, brought to life by our cast and an atmospheric soundscape, we follow the story through the voices of villagers trying to make sense of events unfolding among them.
After the drama, join Nigel and Allison as we discuss the history behind the story, the choices made in adapting it, and the questions that remain unanswered.
Explore the accompanying Journal on our website, where we are gradually adding research, historical sources and further details as our investigations continue.
Based on historical events and contemporary newspaper reports. Characters, dialogue and some events have been imagined or adapted for the drama.
Content note: Includes themes of suspected poisoning, death and the loss of children.
Cast.
Role Actors
Mr Cole David Stephenson
Jonathan Balls Kieran Byrne
Mary Beales Jeanette George
Maria Lambert Emma Holohan
Elizabeth Peggs. Holly Rant
Anne Peggs Caitlyn Stephenson
Charlotte Williams. Amelia Smith
John Bulman. Pete Kijek
James Park Joseph George
Thomas Nurse Joshua Parks
John Pilgrim Paul Smith
Reverend Birch Ed Blackshaw
Dr W Clowes Carl Reeder
Dr J W W Firth. Paul Seeman
Constable Harmer Paul Brown
Sarah Kerrison Joolz Bailey
Narrators Allison Harding
Nigel Higgins
With thanks to https://pixabay.com
https://freesound.org
For the many sound effects and background ambience
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1 hr 8 min
About Places remember
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Places Remember
Every place has a story.
Mention the name of a village, a lonely stretch of coastline, a forgotten church, or a quiet woodland, and someone will…
remember something. It may be a family memory, a local legend, an event recorded in history, or simply a tale passed from one generation to the next.
Places become part of us. We celebrate there. We mourn there. We laugh, we fear, we love, and we leave pieces of ourselves behind. Long after the people have gone, the places remain, carrying the echoes of those who came before.
Perhaps that's why it sometimes feels as though places remember.
Not every memory is a happy one. Some tell of courage, kindness and hope. Others speak of tragedy, betrayal and loss. Some are firmly rooted in fact, while others have grown through years of whispered retellings, gathering new details with every passing generation until history and folklore become almost impossible to separate.
Places Remember explores those stories.
From forgotten crimes and remarkable lives to ghostly legends, strange happenings, curious folklore and the unexplained, each episode journeys into the memories attached to a place, not simply to ask what happened, but to discover how those stories have survived, changed and endured.
Because history is more than dates and documents. It lives in conversations, in family memories, in old newspaper cuttings, in weathered gravestones, in the names we still whisper, and in the landscapes that quietly bear witness to it all.
Whether the stories are true, embellished, or somewhere in between, they reveal something about the people who told them and the places that inspired them.
So join us as we visit the villages, coastlines, churches, forests and forgotten corners where memory lingers.
After all...
Every place remembers something.
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