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Casual Cruelty

Episode 2: Trial by Combat

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Series of short stories by American author Shirley Jackson, who wrote in a style of 'creeping unease' from the 1940s until her death in 1965.

Emily Johnson has known for some time who is stealing things from her New York furnished room, but only now has she decided to confront the suspect.

Read by Joanne Whalley.

A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. Show less

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