On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

7/7/202639 min

Journalist Lucy Greenwell goes in search of Jess following rumours and unanswered questions about where she was born and who gave birth to her.

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Credits:

Reporter - Lucy Greenwell

Producer - Katie Gunning

Original theme music - Tom Kinsella

Sound design and additional music - Rowan Bishop

Podcast artwork - Blythe Walker Sibthorp

Narrative editor - Gary Marshall

Editor - Jasper Corbett

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Clips

First 90 seconds

Speaker 10:00
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Jess· Guest0:30
Tortoise Investigates.
Speaker 30:38
You wouldn't just drop it off in the middle of the countryside.
Jess· Guest0:45
And hope for the best.
Speaker 30:46
There's obviously something fishy about the story.
Lucy Greenwell· Host0:49
So the story didn't ring true, but we couldn't quite work out why for ages. Yeah, it didn't really wash.
Speaker 30:54
I'm sitting round a table with my sisters.
Lucy Greenwell· Host0:56
We're drinking tea and going over a memory from when we were kids. It's something we've been through so many times over the years.
Speaker 31:05
We were like, why did you stop? Because she was driving. We said, what made you stop to look what it was? Because she said it was in a plastic bag.
Lucy Greenwell· Host1:15
You see, this is a story my family can never quite put to rest. Maybe every family has one of these. It's that thing that always comes up when you're together. Someone mentions a name, a place or a particular memory