Square Peg

Square Peg After a mistyped email address connects them, an American suburban dad gets sucked into the bizarre That email would change both of their lives.

Square Peg is an 8-episode podcast that tells the following true story:

In 2017, Frank Carver, a one-eyed English septuagenarian and somewhat lovable provocateur, accidentally emailed someone he’d never met. That someone was Rob Collins, a kind and reliable 43-year-old suburban dad from Virginia. The email was meant for a British blogger. But instead, Rob heard the story. Frank said that when he

was in the Army, over 50 years ago, he was viciously assaulted by a fellow soldier, and that attack left him nearly blind at 17 years old. Oh, and the alleged attacker was Frank’s older brother. But the crime was “covered up,” and while Frank had already sued the British military over this—the case even reached the country’s High Court of Justice—only recently had Frank decided to bring criminal charges against his brother. Meanwhile, Frank had been diagnosed with cancer and felt he was running out of time to right this wrong. So despite having no journalistic experience and some doubts about the details of the story, Rob decides to investigate the case and help Frank in his quest for justice. Two years and many detours—including a psychiatric evaluation in Berlin—later, Rob’s self-funded quest for the holy grail of getting justice for Frank concludes... and Rob, struggling with what it all meant, realizes he gave Frank what he really needed. That’s how, in the end, it wasn’t Frank’s son or his siblings, but Rob, suburban dad from Virginia, who officiated and was the only speaker at Frank’s funeral in 2019. And the big question remains: who was left more affected by this relationship, Rob or Frank?

Frank with psychiatrist Dr. Michael Linden in Berlin. Dr. Linden developed the concept of Posttraumatic Embitterment Dis...
09/20/2022

Frank with psychiatrist Dr. Michael Linden in Berlin. Dr. Linden developed the concept of Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder.

Beginning of the prologue of Frank's book:"Apart from the odd trip and tumble, the first five years of my life passed wi...
06/29/2022

Beginning of the prologue of Frank's book:

"Apart from the odd trip and tumble, the first five years of my life passed without incident, and with the grey stuff between my ears in its early stage of learning the difference between love and hate, friend and foe and what was right and what was wrong, there had been little to cry about. But thereafter, alarm bells began to ring inside my head; warning me of an attitude of resentment from my elder brother. The fact that he had an aggravating habit of locking me out of our toy cupboard was, I suppose, part and parcel of growing up. To be constantly pushed aside from sharing the beam of limelight he was so obsessed with, was no big deal either. Although eventually, amidst nightmare experiences inflicted upon me whilst graduating from one parallel of learning to another, the definition of right and wrong, good, bad and evil, began to make sense."

05/24/2022

Fun fact: Frank was banned from the Aldi in Scunthorpe due to a dispute with the manager over the quality of their pork ribs.

05/22/2022

Big thanks to our listeners in Australia 🇦🇺, our top country! Is it because co-producer Ashley Hall studied at USC: University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia for a semester? 🤔 We'd love to hear from you!

“This is what David felt like when he slew Goliath. The Square Peg podcast, an indie production, has released an eight-e...
05/09/2022

“This is what David felt like when he slew Goliath. The Square Peg podcast, an indie production, has released an eight-episode narrative series that is comparable to—and in many ways—better than any production a large podcast network could create, develop, finance and produce.” 👀

https://medium.com/ear-worthy/square-peg-podcast-takes-listeners-through-the-twists-turns-of-fate-19b453ba01cf

This is what David felt like when he slew Goliath. The Square Peg podcast, an indie production, has released an eight-episode narrative…

05/06/2022

Got our first review on Podchaser! “I was drawn in immediately by the intrigue and couldn't stop listening because of the relationships that developed. I binged the entire series in one evening... Loved it!” Add your review: https://www.podchaser.com/squarepeg

Frank was born upstairs
05/01/2022

Frank was born upstairs

Sporting a safari suit outside the Institut für Verhaltenstherapie Berlin before our appointment with Dr. Linden
04/28/2022

Sporting a safari suit outside the Institut für Verhaltenstherapie Berlin before our appointment with Dr. Linden

We weren't quite sure what was up with the disguise
04/26/2022

We weren't quite sure what was up with the disguise

Bill Baynham from Part 2
04/18/2022

Bill Baynham from Part 2

Frank at Hadrian's Camp near Carlisle circa 1962.
04/14/2022

Frank at Hadrian's Camp near Carlisle circa 1962.

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Introducing Square Peg
Introducing Square Peg

Just released! Square Peg, an 8-part podcast by Rob Collins, Ashley Hall, Marie Huynh, Jessica Abel, and Beth Fereday. Listen now at https://www.squarepegpodcast.com or https://apple.co/35XfzEG

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