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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 4.

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

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

detail about nature's brilliance and the English countryside and the way um humans have worked hand in glove with it for thousands of years and how voice-verified

It has been eternal and there's been give and take. voice-verified

So there has been loyalty to the given world. voice-verified

That is collapsing. voice-verified

But it's also a picture of the structure of this community where everyone is an individual and no one really is more responsible than anyone else and everyone has different approaches. voice-verified

So from the spring equinox to the autumn equinox, massive change occurs, including flooding. voice-verified

But there's also, you know, bits of folklore and there's a presence in the river. voice-verified

of an ancient being and um voice-verified

bits of land are being sold off. voice-verified

But it's also just an exquisite portrayal of human beings. voice-verified

Um, and some of them are quite tragic. voice-verified

There's one guy called Alan Jope, whose family and his property are in the Doomsday book. voice-verified

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