A multi-contributor series of specially-commissioned stories with subterranean settings.

Episode 3 (of 3): In Praise Of Radical Fish by Alison MacLeod
Believing themselves to be bound for Syria, three not-very radical young men prepare on Brighton beach.

Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011 and her story 'Solo, A Capella', about the Tottenham riots, featured in the Radio 4 series Where Were You ... in 2012. Her previous works include The Changeling and The Wave Theory of Angels. Her novel Unexploded was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and was a Book At Bedtime on BBC Radio 4. Alison is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the University of Chichester.

Read by Amir El-Masry

Produced by Jeremy Osborne
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