Cassie McCullagh

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5,251 appearances 32 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2018 last heard 6d ago

Cassie McCullagh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Bookshelf · New Fiction from Melissa Harrison and Malcolm Knox + Mandy Sayer's Top 3 · 4 Sep 2026 podcast

And I think maybe Milon the Floss is a sort of in there a bit, uh the George Elliot. voice-verified

And you and I not so long ago read Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road, which is also in that style. voice-verified

But that felt voice-verified

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

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