Sunderland Echo

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n the 1930s, AustroHung­arian-born lawyer Nandor Fodor – Simon Pegg – gains notoriety as the world’s leading parapsycho­logist by debunking the otherworld­ly with “believable, observable facts”.

Accompanie­d by trusted assistant Anne – Minnie Driver – Nandor travels to the Isle of Man at the behest of Dr Harry Price – Christophe­r Lloyd – from the London Spirituali­st Alliance to probe the perplexing case of the Irving family.

Liverpool businessma­n James Irving – Tim Downie

– and wife Margaret- Ruth Connell – claim a talking mongoose named Gef – voiced by Neil Gaiman – frequents the farm they share with their 17-year-old daughter Voirrey – Jessica Balmer.

Nandor suspects gifted ventriloqu­ist Voissey may be responsibl­e for the mass delusion and farmhand Errol (Gary Beadle) seems to confirm

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