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Invasive Species: Episode 5

Episode 5

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Fran's village has been overrun by knotweed - but one neighbour remains unaffected.

With the village almost overrun by knotweed, one neighbour remains unaffected - and Fran wants answers.
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.

With Fran's village almost overrun by knotweed she wonders if recent global catastrophes might be linked to this very local problem, seeking answers from the one neighbour whose garden remains unaffected. 

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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