Inevitably, parallels to the first series of the hugely popular true crime podcast Serial jump to mind.
Starting with India, Manel hopes to create podcasts that lead the World Service to those audiences often overlooked by other podcasters.
Led by Norwegian investigative journalist, Marit Higraff, and British BBC radio documentary maker, Neil McCarthy, Death in Ice Valley intends to find answers that have evaded police, journalists, and crime novelists for the past 47 years.
And while the mirroring bleakness of weather and crime are familiar staples of the genre, they don’t feel tired in Death in Ice Valley, but rather reimagined for the podcast format.