Cassie McCullagh
speaker
5,048 appearances
31 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2018
last heard 11 Sep
Cassie McCullagh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 16 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 3.
Appearances
Mm-hmm.
voice-verified
Well Kate, I was also thinking of Max Porter and Patrick Gale and maybe even
voice-verified
Well, after the summer the UK and Europe has just had, and the one that may well be ahead of us, this is a more than timely book.
voice-verified
And the old world is very present, as you say, Kate, but it's also in the nature, the natural world disappearing.
voice-verified
And let me just read from the first paragraph of um the first there's a prologue, but this is the first paragraph.
voice-verified
Paragraph and the heading is Claire, which is one of the figures that we learn a lot about in the book.
voice-verified
Mid morning on a warm day in late March, in a leafless ash near the Lichgate of St.
voice-verified
Lucy's Church in Lower Eardom, an olive-green chifchaff clasps a twig with wire work legs and makes a small assay at song.
voice-verified
He has travelled such a long way to get to the little village, fleeing
voice-verified
famine, crossing the sea at night, braving terrible dangers.
voice-verified
Now he stops, picks a bristly beetle larvae from a fissure in the tree's bark, and swallows it down.
voice-verified
He is so tired.
voice-verified
So this beautiful little bird that is only the size of a sparrow, a chif chaff, and that's the sound that i uh this bird makes, has arrived for its annual migration and I had to go down one of those search rabbit warrants and it's either come from Africa or even in the Caribbean.
voice-verified
England.
voice-verified
But Saj happens to be very attuned to nature and uh he stands on the drive and listens for a moment.
voice-verified
Earlier than last year, he thinks.
voice-verified
So some people are tuned into nature and others have absolutely no idea.
voice-verified
But other characters hear this Chif Chaff throughout the book, and one of them is a young guy who's really into mixing music and you know he's big on I don't know one of those platforms and you know he's red
voice-verified
dub mixes of stuff and and he hears the chif chaff and he thinks it's like a click track from a you know some kind of I don't know drill.
voice-verified
an exquisite, delicate web of
voice-verified
Showing 201–220 of 5,048 · page 11 of 253
← Previous
Next →