Good evening, and welcome to The Marsh House Inventory. My name is Oliver Featherstone, I wrote this story and I will be reading it, and this is chapter one, which is the right place to start. Our narrator is Hattie Crane, an auctioneer from a small firm in Norwich, sent to catalogue the contents of a damp house on the Norfolk coast after its owner died without a will. She expects furniture, mould and a week of bad tea. She gets all three. But the first item on her list, a longcase clock in the hall, has been stopped at twenty past four, and when she asks the housekeeper why, the kettle goes on and nothing is said. Listen carefully to the dates. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts. Chapter one.