Blum

Art History student Clara Torres disappears while working on her thesis about Ursula Blum, a avant-garde painter from the 20th century. Five years later, journalist Emma Clark decides to travel to Switzerland to continue Clara's investigation and narrate in a podcast what she discovers about the mystery surrounding both women. Blum is an audio drama produced by El Extraordinario, created, written, and directed by Carmen Pacheco and Manuel Bartual. Starring Charlotte Vega, Joe Manjón, Nikki García and Natalia Tena. For more information, visit: myswitzerland.com/BLUM

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June 7, 2023 • 1 min

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Episode 1. The Message

June 28, 2023 • 22 mins

Journalist Emma Clark travels to Switzerland in order to continue her investigation into her boyfriend's old flatmate Clara Torres, an art student who mysteriously vanished. Before her disappearance, Clara had become obsessed with a 20th century avant-garde painter, Ursula Blum. Why did Clara disappear? How could Ursula Blum be connected?

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Episode 2. The Score

July 5, 2023 • 18 mins

Shortly after arriving in Switzerland, Emma visits a small exhibition dedicated to Ursula Blum at a cultural center in Geneva. The building where the center is located used to be a sanatorium, the same one where Ursula spent her last years of life.

Blum is an audio drama produced by El Extraordinario, created, written, and directed by Carmen Pacheco and Manuel Bartual.

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Episode 3. The Visit

July 12, 2023 • 19 mins

Emma visits two of the paintings that Ursula painted in the sanatorium. To do this, she meets with Christina, an employee of one of the museums in Basel. With Christina's help, Emma begins to understand what Ursula seemed to be trying to represent with her paintings.

Blum is an audio drama produced by El Extraordinario, created, written, and directed by Carmen Pacheco and Manuel Bartual.

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Episode 4. The Miracle

July 19, 2023 • 20 mins

After discovering some information about Clara's life with the help of one of her friends, Emma travels to Lugano to see the last painting Ursula painted. There she hears a local legend attributed to the painter.

Blum is an audio drama produced by El Extraordinario, created, written, and directed by Carmen Pacheco and Manuel Bartual.

This episode stars Charlotte Vega, Joe Manjón, Olivia Delcán, Riccardo Rigamonti, Isabelle Stoffel an...

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Episode 5. The Legend

July 26, 2023 • 23 mins

Emma travels to St. Gallen to visit its abbey, where she hopes to obtain information about the neumes that appear in Ursula Blum's scores. Upon leaving the abbey, Emma approaches the cemetery where Ursula is buried.

Blum is an audio drama produced by El Extraordinario, created, written, and directed by Carmen Pacheco and Manuel Bartual.

This episode stars Charlotte Vega, Joe Manjón y Thomas Bischofberger.

Sound design by Ignacio Canti...

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Episode 6. The Photograph

August 2, 2023 • 19 mins

After a discussion with David, Emma decides to give a scientific perspective to her investigation with the help of a neurologist working in Geneva. The next day she visits the Photo Elysée at Plateforme 10 in Lausanne, where she hopes to find some old photographs that provide new information about Ursula Blum.

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Episode 7. The Box

August 9, 2023 • 21 mins

Emma returns to Basel to interview the restorer of a Blum Box, one of the music boxes manufactured by Victor Blum, Ursula's cousin. Later, she meets with Christina, and together they develop a hypothesis with all the data they have gathered during the investigation.

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Episode 8. The Melody

August 16, 2023 • 23 mins

Emma manages to decipher a hidden melody in Ursula Blum's paintings with the help of Sonia, the friend at whose house in Lucerne she is staying. The next day she visits the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich to try the melody out on a Blum Box.

Blum is an audio drama produced by El Extraordinario, created, written, and directed by Carmen Pacheco and Manuel Bartual.

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Episode 9. The Farewell

August 16, 2023 • 24 mins

Emma meets Oliver Davis on Kramgasse in Bern, a collector who claims to have a Blum Box. From his description, Emma suspects that it could be the box with which Ursula and Victor posed in the photo at the Photo Elysée museum in Plateforme 10.

Blum is an audio drama produced by El Extraordinario, created, written, and directed by Carmen Pacheco and Manuel Bartual.

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Episodes

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Episode 2. The Score

Episode 3. The Visit

Episode 4. The Miracle

Episode 5. The Legend

Episode 6. The Photograph

Episode 7. The Box

Episode 8. The Melody

Episode 9. The Farewell

Popular Podcasts

Blum: a mind altering audio thriller

Episode 1. The Message