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Jennifer Forde

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
249 total appearances

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Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

Yeah, 2018, yeah.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

Yeah, we didn't have any idea that it would be.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

And I think increasingly now we realize it really is down to the luck we had with the people that we were working with who were American and...

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

just very, you know, they had kind of ambitions for it beyond what we could have seen, I think.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

And, you know, really brought that idea of making it about the place.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

I think the sense of place, you know, West Cork is kind of what, you know, it was such a different way of looking at the story because I think it gave us our structure.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

Yeah.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

of kind of telling the story from the perspective of what it would have been like to live there at the time and experience it as it unfolded.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

And I think that really got us out of the hole of how do you tell this story to people that know it so well and have lived through it for the last 20 years and people who've never heard of Ian Bailey or Sophie Toscan de Plantier.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

So, you know, just telling it kind of chronologically and letting the story unfold

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

And the kind of character development that way allowed it to, as I say, it kind of answered a lot of the questions that we had as to how you do that, I think.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

Yeah, BBC Sounds, but it went out on Radio 4 as well.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

Went out on Radio 4.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

Ah, yeah.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

I think so.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

And I think what was interesting about him was it was, you know, because I think when we took it to the BBC, that was the big question.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

Is anyone going to talk to you?

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

Because, you know, we are not, this isn't our beat.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

So it was a bit similar, like you mentioned with West Cork, we would be very much kind of outsiders going into this.

Crime World
Episode 1360: Havana Syndrome: the mysterious disease targeting the CIA (Part 1)

closed world.