Cassie McCullagh
speaker
5,416 appearances
33 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2018
last heard today
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 — 18 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 4.
Appearances
So make sure you keep a list of the ones that you think you might like.
voice-verified
Yes, she is a nature columnist actually, Tom, for the Times of London.
voice-verified
Oh right and yeah, and she's also written three novels previously to this new one, which is called The Given World.
voice-verified
And when Kate and I reviewed her last one in 2018, Kate, long time um between novels, we loved it so much that she actually
voice-verified
got in contact, remember, and thanked us for our comments.
voice-verified
Yeah, and it was a very interesting exercise in a couple of things.
voice-verified
It was telling the story of a small town in rural England after World War One, before World War Two.
voice-verified
the hint of fascism was reaching this tiny town, but it also was just an old place which still had old great grandparents and the old ways still alive.
voice-verified
And the description of fields of barley and rising pollen in the sun and insects.
voice-verified
And there was one beautiful young girl at the center of this book and there was a
voice-verified
moment in it, Kate.
voice-verified
Do you remember where she's leaning up against the horse and just smelling it and feeling its hair and its whiskers and its little breath and oh gosh.
voice-verified
It was just an exquisitely sensual description of a world that we were rapidly losing or was disappearing in that time frame.
voice-verified
Just exquisite.
voice-verified
Well, that is a great question, Tom, because it's central to the novel, as would be suggested by it being the title.
voice-verified
It's from a Latin phrase, fides datus mundi, and it means something like, one of the characters says, loyalty to the given world.
voice-verified
And it appears on a sundial that is in the garden of an ancient priory.
voice-verified
Not as old as you might think, but we find out a bit about that later on.
voice-verified
So essentially it's a small town right now.
voice-verified
It's called Lower Edom, E-O-D-H-A-M, so Eodom.
voice-verified
Showing 541–560 of 5,416 · page 28 of 271
← Previous
Next →