Cassie McCullagh

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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.

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

And it's being modernized and this has been going on for, you know, the last sort of forty, fifty years. voice-verified

But we see the village through the eyes of all the inhabitants. voice-verified

And what you need to know before you start reading it is that you're going to get each inhabitant's view and you won't necessarily return to them. voice-verified

but as it builds up, you get a picture of what's really going on in the village, which is small, and to the land, and importantly, the Whelm River, which is ancient voice-verified

venerable, much voice-verified

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

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