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Daphne Du Maurier

Drama: Classic & Period

Tales from the award-winning novelist Dame Daphne du Maurier - Lady Browning.

Tales from the award-winning novelist Dame Daphne du Maurier -  Lady Browning.

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Daphne Du Maurier: The Birds

Daphne Du Maurier: The Birds: Episode 1

Drama: Thriller

The Birds

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Daphne Du Maurier, The Birds, Episode 1

The natural world turns on mankind as a war veteran and his family come under attack.

The birds are 'never satisfied, never still'. The natural world turns on mankind as a war veteran and his family come under attack. Charlie Barnecut reads the original chiller.

The birds are "never satisfied, never still". Charlie Barnecut reads Daphne du Maurier's chilling classic in three parts. 

The novel was famously filmed for the cinema by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963. But don't expect anything like what was on the big screen here. This is Du Maurier's original story. In fact, the author disliked what Hitchcock did to her tale: particularly his translation of her setting from Cornwall - with its small fields and stone hedges - to small-town America. 

As this original story opens, with the colder winter weather drawing in, Nat and his family notice the hungry birds are gathering in the village...

Producer: Gemma Jenkins

Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2003.

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Daphne du Maurier's classic chiller, read by Charlie Barnecut

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