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Adjoa Andoh

Susan Wooldridge

Tessa Wojtczak

Lily Lesser

Alexander Vlahos

Phyllida Law

Grace Englert

Jalleh Alizadeh

Fiona McAlpine

Angela Carter

Olivia Hetreed

Get Carter: The Bloody Chamber: Episode 5: The Company of Wolves

An Evening With Angela Carter

Episode 5

Episode 5: The Company of Wolves

The Company of Wolves

BBC Radio 4 - Get Carter: The Bloody Chamber, The Company of Wolves

Red is a brave girl but she is warned not to stray from the path  to her granny's house.

The final episode from one of Angela Carter's subverted fairy stories. Preparing to enter the forest to visit her granny, a girl is warned not to stray from the path.

Five stories to gobble you up. From Angela Carter's iconic collection of fairy stories and dramatised for radio by Olivia Hetreed.

Episode 5: The Company of Wolves
It's Christmas Eve, and a young girl is on her way to visit her granny in the forest. She has been warned not to stray from the path but, on her way, she meets a charming huntsman who has other ideas. 


At the time of writing The Bloody Chamber in the late 1970s, Angela Carter was disaffected by both sides of the feminist debate. She re-worked traditional fairy tales from her own unique, literary outsider’s point of view, putting women at the centre of the stories. 

With their feisty heroines and rgiastic mash-up of beasts, shape-shifters and ghouls, her extraordinary tales are the most perfect example of her style, not just for her incomparable prose, but also in the dizzying twists and turns of perception, fantasy and myth.

Controversially influenced by De Sade, she embraced the erotic, explored our deepest and darkest urges, and subverted the roles of hunter and prey, master and mistress so that, instead of male sexuality, it is the female that becomes transgressive and powerful. 

Dramatist Olivia Hetreed is a noted screen-writer, whose work includes the multi-award winning, BAFTA and Oscar nominated Girl with a Pearl Earring, starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson and the award-winning, critically-acclaimed radical adaptation of Wuthering Heights directed by Andrea Arnold.

Cast :
Wise Woman ........................Adjoa Andoh
Bawdy Woman ....................Susan Wooldridge
Pushy Woman .....................Tessa Wojtczak
Red ..................................... Lily Lesser
Huntsman ...........................Alexander Vlahos
Granny ................................Phyllida Law
Girl  ......................................Grace Englert
Girl  .....................................Jalleh Alizadeh

Sound Design:  Lucinda Mason Brown
Director / Producer:  Fiona McAlpine

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Five stories from Angela Carter's collection of fairy tales, dramatised by Olivia Hetree.

Five stories from Angela Carter's iconic collection of fairy tales, dramatised by Olivia Hetreed.

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