Angela Carter's chilling reworking of the Little Red Riding Hood story, read by Amanda Root.

When the late writer Angela Carter re-worked her short story The Company of Wolves with film director Neil Jordan (above, with Sarah Patterson in the lead role), it turned a beautifully crafted piece on adolescence into a pretentious Hammer horror. This BBC7-commissioned reading by Amanda Root is entirely faithful to Carter's short story and doesn't disappoint on the chill-and-psychological-thrill front. The young girl who wanders from the path in a forest full of bestial dangers ends up living a life that goes against everything we ever took away from Little Red Riding Hood - never have the basic needs of a wild wolf seemed so irresistibly attractive.