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Voices in the Valley

3: After the Fair

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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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 1909, and the appearance of Pascal's fantastical fair in Barrowbeck provokes panic in the village...

Writer: Andrew Michael Hurley
Reader: Alexandra Hannant
Producer: Justine Willett Show less

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