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: 3: After the Fair

3: After the Fair

BBC Radio 4 - Voices in the Valley, 3: After the Fair

Another chilling strange tale set in the remote and seemingly cursed village of Barrowbeck

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

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

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