Richard MacLean Smith

Richard started his podcast Unexplained from the spare room of his London flat in 2016. Since then, the show Described by the Guardian as the ‘spookiest podcast ever’ has been an iTunes ‘best of’ and has been streamed over 80 million times, reaching #2 in the US, UK and Canadian Apple Podcast chart. In 2018, Unexplained the book was published by Sceptre in the UK and Sourcebooks in the US and Can in 2019.

Unexplained

Unexplained is a haunting and unsettling bi-weekly podcast about strange and mysterious real life events that continue to evade explanation. A story-based show mixing spoken-word narrative, history and ideas – often to terrifying effect – that explores the space between what we think of as real and what is not; where sometimes belief can be as concrete as ‘reality,’ whatever that is…