Deborah Treisman
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982 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 1 Sep
Deborah Treisman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he gives her hugs.
They reassure her.
They show her their baby pictures.
Right, right.
She says they should name their daughter after her.
Also, a strange scene.
A strange scene.
Yes.
And maybe just the frustration that she can't know.
She's not in the room.
Yeah.
And so then we have the disappearance and then the discovery of the bodies.
Yeah.
And, you know, these many references, which kind of, I think, go to the heart of what Fiona wanted to do in the collection as a whole.
these many recountings of that story and the sort of pleasure that Roy and Mandy get from telling the story and that thrill that everyone gets from telling the story by being associated with some form of
dark evil yeah but being safe from it at the same time and that's you know i think fiona said she started writing this collection because she'd been pulled in by a true crime podcast and wanted to kind of question why do we like true crime stories you know what is it about it and
There's a line that I think is really at the heart of that element of the story, which is in the final encounter with Roy, when the narrator says, I wanted to hear the story of S one more time as told by Roy.
It felt as though this might be my last chance to get close to the largeness of life, its terror and mystery, while remaining perfectly safe.
Right, so there's the safety in only hearing these things or only telling these stories.
You know, it's like scaring people with fairy tales or ghost stories.
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