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Voices in the Valley

8: The Sisters

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

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

The village of 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...

Today: As winter descends, a writer finds herself at a Barrowbeck guest house run by two rather odd sisters...

Writer: Andrew Michael Hurley
Reader: Tamsin Greig
Producer: Justine Willett Show less

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