Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton 

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Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton: Episode 2

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

Episode 2

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As Shelley plots to leave the group, Mira scopes a promising site for Birnam Wood.

In Eleanor Catton’s gripping thriller, Mira chances upon a promising site for her gardening collective as long-time collaborator Shelley plots to break free. Read by Kerry Fox.

A radical gardening collective in New Zealand will push their principles to breaking point when they make a deal with Big Tech. Kerry Fox reads Eleanor Catton’s satirical, apocalyptic thriller.

Birnam Wood stalwart Mira has chanced upon the perfect site to scale up her guerrilla gardening collective. But in the background, friend and long-time collaborator Shelley is losing patience with the activist lifestyle. 

Read by Kerry Fox
Abridged by Siân Preece
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie

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