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Radio 4,30 Oct 2022,14 mins

1. The Barrowbeck Survey

Voices in the Valley

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Ten strange and unsettling tales from the British folk-horror author Andrew Michael Hurley. The village of Barrowbeck, in the north of England, has a reputation for strangeness. It is a place that brings out the sin in people. But despite the dark, the cold, the isolation, people have managed to live there for centuries - until the river finally got the better of them. Today: it is 2048. The valley is flooded, and the village submerged. But the past voices of Barrowbeck demand to tell their tales... Writer: Andrew Michael Hurley is a British folk-horror writer, and the author of the Costa-winning The Loney, as well as Devil's Day and Starve Acre. Reader: Maxine Peake - other readers in the series include: Siobhan Finneran, Reece Shearsmith, Tamsin Greig and Toby Jones. Producer: Justine Willett

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