Guy Larson is one of the creators behindUp in Smoke.On this episode of Podcast Elevator Pitch, Guy tells us about the show and makes his pitch.
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- Up in Smoke
Credits:
Written & directed by Guy Larson and Cambria Bailey-Jones. Starring Mae Mac and Adam Buxton. Sound designed by Dan Pugsley. Studio producer is Gabriella Jones.
Transcript:
[00:00:00] Welcome to Podcast Elevator Pitch. My name's Arielle Nissenblatt and I'm your bellhop for the next few minutes. On this show, I ask podcasters to pitch us on why we should listen to their shows. Specifically, their limited run series. I'm interested in these because they're hard to make and even harder to market.
So a lot of them fall by the wayside without getting the listenership that they deserve.
So in this episode of Podcast Elevator Pitch, we'll hear from Guy Larson on why we should listen to a show called Up In Smoke. First, I'll hit play on the trailer of the show, and then you'll hear from Guy himself.
Let's do it.
In 2014, in a remote English village, a couple are woken up to their worst nightmare. Their family home is burning. Otto and Lindy Miller make it out of the blaze, but their [00:01:00] teenage son is trapped. Mason does not. Clear this area, please, everyone. Everyone out. Thank you. We're going to need the space. When police finally comb through the ashes, Mason's body is nowhere to be seen.
Please, sweetheart, if you can. All I had to do was check his bloody room. Any ideas on what happened here? I was teaching the young Mason just last night, and all seemed well. The mystery will bring the world's media flooding into our village. Police. We are now conducting a missing persons investigation.
Reporters. Did he have a sexual relationship with Mason? No! Well, we don't know. I don't hurt children in any way. Psychics. I sense Mason isn't truly in the spirit realm. All asking one question. Where is Mason Miller?[00:02:00]
Up in Smoke. A dark, mystery thriller from Penny Fall. Written and directed by Guy Larson and Cambria Bailey Jones. Starring Olivier Award nominee, May Mac. Follow along at upinsmoke. podcast on Instagram. Subscribe and listen to Up In Smoke wherever you get your podcasts.
Now let's get to Guy's pitch. Here's why we should listen to Up In Smoke.
My name is Guy Larson. I wrote and directed Up in Smoke, an eight part supernatural thriller series with Cambria Bailey Jones, starring Mae Mack and Adam Buxton. The best way to think of Up in Smoke is it's a true crime podcast about a fictional event. It all takes place around a house fire in 2014 that claims the life of one teenage boy called Mason Miller.
And when police combed through the ashes, they realized that his body isn't there, sparking this huge media [00:03:00] storm. Police and journalists and psychics all descend on this tiny English village all asking the same question Where is Mason Miller? May Mack plays a local tabloid journalist called Kay McAllister who ten years on starts this podcast to try and prove that the wrong person was convicted and Adam Buxton who is known for his massive podcast The Adam Buxton Show among many other things is He plays a police chief called DCI Roy Burgess, who suddenly has the world's eyes on him and is very much way over his head.
My partner is one of these people that loves falling asleep to true crime podcasts. She finds the voices very relaxing. I do not necessarily share that feeling, but we were listening to a podcast about a family in the 1940s whose house burns down. Four of the nine children escape, but five die. do not, and their bodies are not found in the rubble.
