Voices In The Valley

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Strange tales set in an isolated village on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border.

Strange tales set in Barrowbeck, an isolated village on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border, from British folk-horror writer Andrew Michael Hurley.

Strange tales set in Barrowbeck, an isolated village on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border, from British folk-horror writer Andrew Michael Hurley, the author of the Costa-winning The Loney, as well as Devil's Day and Starve Acre. Readers include
Maxine Peake, Siobhan Finneran, Reece Shearsmith and Toby Jones.

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Voices in the Valley: 2: A Strange Case

2: A Strange Case

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Reece Shearsmith reads the next in a series of ten chilling strange tales.

1782: Two Barrowbeck villagers are accused of the murder of a young woman, and the courtroom is awash with rumours about her unnatural death...

Ten chilling strange tales from the British folk-horror author Andrew Michael Hurley.

Barrowbeck, in the north of England, has a reputation for strangeness. It is a place that brings out the sin in people. But despite the dark, the cold, the isolation, people have managed to live there  for centuries - until the river finally got the better of them. And now the past voices of Barrowbeck want to tell their tales...

In today's story, it is 1782, and two Barrowbeck villagers are accused of the murder of a young woman. But the courtroom is awash with rumours about her unnatural death...

Writer: Andrew Michael Hurley 
Reader: Reece Shearsmith
Producer: Justine Willett

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