Exploring otherness, identity, faith, religion, gender and trauma, Hag brings together a gripping collection of tales that are unsettlingly timely and wickedly sinister. Each story is inspired by a forgotten folk tale sourced from across the UK by Professor Carolyne Larrington, a specialist in Old Norse and British fairy tales at St John’s College, Oxford. Drawn from illuminated manuscripts and other folkloric traditions, these stories have been revised and reimagined by authors local to each region. Just as the Brothers Grimm codified Germany’s rural folk lore, Hag catalogues the early myths and legends that have shaped the UK’s storytelling heritage.

Each story has been richly sound-designed, combining subtle vocal effects, atmospheric textures and an original score.

Listeners who want to find out more about the forgotten folk tales that inspired Hag will be able to explore further with a series of accompanying interviews between Professor Carolyne Larrington and the authors.

New Statesman: "Relevant and intriguing"

The Times: "A return to traditional forms of storytelling"

The Sunday Times: "Chatty, engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang"

The Spectator: "Sharp writing and cleverly done"

www.audible.co.uk/hag

Hag is an Audible Originals production. Commissioned by Harriet Poland. Produced by Thomas Curry. Sound-Design by Tom Killian. Editing by Jesse Lawrence, Steven Rajam and Angela Hind.

Audible Original Podcast: Hag

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Produced by Thomas Curry, Lauren Eisen and Sofie Strøbeck.

Short Cuts production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

Short Cuts series producer: Eleanor McDowall

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000824d

A BBC Radio 4 "Pick Of The Week"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008b2w

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

BBC Radio 4 Short Cuts: Lavender Country

In 1995, two men filmed an episode of daytime talk show, The Jenny Jones Show. A few days later, one of the men was dead. The shooter later claimed he’d committed the murder “in a panic that he was being falsely accused or identified as a gay person.”

Produced for Radiotopia’s Criminal with Phoebe Judge, Lauren Spohrer, Nadia Wilson, Susannah Roberson. Audio mix by Rob Byers.

Image by Jake Stark/Unsplash.

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Produced for Love + Radio with Phil Dmochowski and Steven Jackson. 

Sound design and original score by Phil Dmochowski and Steven Jackson.

www.loveandradio.org/2019/10/mr-mop

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