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1: The Barrowbeck Survey

It is 2048. The valley is flooded and the village of Barrowbeck submerged. But still the voices of the past want to tell their tales....

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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Sun 30 Oct 2022 19:45

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