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Hello -- some news!
I've adapted Susan Cooper's cult-classic novel, The Dark Is Rising, for a 12-part audio drama/podcast on @bbcworldservice.
Dir. & co-adapted by @SimonMcBurney.
Starring Toby Jones, Harriet Walter.
Music by @JohnnyFlynnHQ & more.
#TheDarkIsRising
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The Dark Is Rising is straight up the eeriest novel I know. I first read it when I was 13, & it gripped me then -- as it's gripped millions of people around the world since it was first published in 1973...
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...with its story of young Will Stanton, who turns 11 one Winter Solstice, only to find that in the landscape around his quiet English village, something is very wrong. Rooks are behaving oddly, a blizzard's building, "the Walker" is abroad––& the power of the Dark is surging. Cover of The Dark Is Rising...
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The Nan Shepherd/The Living Mountain #CoReadingVirus Book Group: as promised, some Sunday thoughts about how it might work. If you're new to the plan, the tweet below should help explain the idea; do join us!
Otherwise & anyway, read on & RT.
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...People around the world are getting hold of copies of Nan's wonderful book, written in a time of world crisis (1940s). They're buying them, borrowing them, being given them by strangers (see tweet below if you want to give or be given a copy)...
...acquiring audio-copies/e-books. It's been heart-lifting to see the global response to the idea; I've spoken about it on Canadian, New Zealand & British radio & we've participants from dozens of countries. Really, how it might work is mostly up to all of you...
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