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Folk horror, dreams under surveillance, lonely in Guatemala
Thursday, 10 April, 2025
Cassie McCullagh is on leave this week, so Kate Evans and guests read Lucy Rose’s The Lamb, Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel, and Rachel Morton’s The Sun was Electric Light (with interview extracts from Lucy Rose on body horror and Cumbrian folk traditions, and from Rachel Morton on her move from poetry to prose).BOOKS Rachel Morton, The Sun was Electric Light, UQP Lucy Rose, The Lamb, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel, Bloomsbury GUESTS Roanna Gonsalves, writer, academic, teacher of creative writing. Her collection of short stories, The Permanent Resident, was published in India and South Asia as, Sunita De Souza Goes To SydneyAnnie Coulthard has worked in radio and publishing – and is a dedicated reader OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDMargaret Atwood, The Handmaid's TalePhilip K. Dick, The Minority ReportFranz Kafka, worksMichelle de Krester, Questions of Travel; Theory and PracticeChristopher Isherwood, worksMelanie Cheng, The BurrowAndrew Michael Hurley, Starve AcreElizabeth Jane Howard, We Are For the DarkSanya Rushdi, HospitalJessie Tu, The HoneyeaterFiona McFarlane, Highway 13; The Sun Walks DownEileen Chong, We Speak of FlowersCREDITSPresenter: Kate Evans Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah CorbettSound engineer: Simon BranthwaiteExecutive producer: Rhiannon Brown
