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Book at Bedtime: Reading Europe - Norway: The Bird Tribunal

Lydia Wilson

Agnes Ravatn

Rosie Hedger

Richard Hamilton

Elizabeth Allard

Book at Bedtime: Reading Europe - Norway: The Bird Tribunal: Episode 1

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Episode 1

Reading Europe - Norway: The Bird Tribunal

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In Agnes Ravatn's haunting psychological thriller two people seek atonement for past sins.

In Norwegian writer Agnes Ravatn's haunting psychological thriller, two people, each with a secret, seek atonement for past sins. Lydia Wilson is the reader.

In the Norwegian writer Agnes Ravatn's haunting psychological thriller, two people, each with a secret, seek atonement for past sins. TV presenter Allis Hagtorn seeks solace in a remote house on an isolated fjord when she takes up a new job as a housekeeper and gardener. Her 44 year old employer is not what she is expecting. Sigurd Bagge is an enigmatic presence, and Allis, like a moth to a flame, finds she is simultaneously drawn to him and alert to his disquieting moods. Lydia Wilson is the reader.

Agnes Ravatn is a novelist and columnist and has published several collections of essays. The Bird Tribunal has won two awards in Norway, the NRK P2 Listener's Novel Prize and the Youth Critic's Award, and it has also been adapted for the stage.

Rosie Hedger is the translator of The Bird Tribunal, and has lived and worked in Scandinavia.

Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

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Haunting psychological thriller by Agnes Ravatn. Two people seek atonement for past sins.

Haunting psychological thriller by Agnes Ravatn. Two people seek atonement for past sins. Read by Lydia Wilson

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