A spiralling murder mystery and a top-rated podcast were not what Saul Wordsworth had in mind when he set out to transcribe the largely illegible diaries of his late father, Christopher Wordsworth, an Observer chief literary critic and sports writer. Yet this is what he has had on his hands since his show, Devil in the Wilderness, found a wide audience last year.
And now Michael Frayn and Blake Morrison, acclaimed writers and former colleagues of Wordsworth on this newspaper, have joined him in a fresh attempt to solve the dark riddle of his father’s life.
