Invasive Species

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Invasive Species: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC Radio 4 - Invasive Species, Episode 3

The specialists have completed their treatment but Fran's sense of relief is short-lived.

The specialist team have finished treating the knotweed - but Fran's sense of relief is short lived. Helen McAlpine reads a new speculative serial from Rachelle Atalla.

Helen McAlpine reads a speculative serial from Rachelle Atalla, set in a near future with uncomfortable parallels to our present.

As temperature rises, forest fires and landslides dominate the global news, Fran is preoccupied with matters closer to home. Knotweed is running wild across the UK and in her cottage garden, the specialist team's first attempt to tame the outbreak has not been successful.

Producer: Eilidh McCreadie

Rachelle Atalla is an award-winning Scottish-Egyptian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter based in Glasgow. Her debut novel The Pharmacist was shortlisted for Best Fiction at the Scottish National Book Awards. In March, she published her climate-focused second novel Thirsty Animals. Her short stories have been published widely and she is the recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. In screenwriting, her first feature was developed with BBC Film and she is developing an adaption of The Pharmacist with Compact Pictures.

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