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Blum in English

Blum in English

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.

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1:56 min

Episode 1. The Message
T1 E1. Episode 1. The Message
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?

28.06.2023

22:47 min

Episode 2. The Score
T1 E2. Episode 2. The Score
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.

05.07.2023

18:20 min

Episode 3. The Visit
T1 E3. Episode 3. The Visit
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.

12.07.2023

19:40 min

Episode 4. The Miracle
T1 E4. Episode 4. The Miracle
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.

19.07.2023

20:33 min

Episode 5. The Legend
T1 E5. Episode 5. The Legend
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.

26.07.2023

23:40 min

Episode 6. The Photograph
T1 E6. Episode 6. The Photograph
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 Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, where she hopes to find some old photographs that provide new information about Ursula Blum.

02.08.2023

19:13 min

Episode 7. The Box
T1 E7. Episode 7. The Box
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.

09.08.2023

22:47 min

Episode 8. The Melody
T1 E8. Episode 8. The Melody
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.

16.08.2023

22:47 min

Episode 9. The Farewell
T1 E9. Episode 9. The Farewell
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.

16.08.2023

22:47 min

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