BBC Radio 4
Friday 17 October, 2008 14.15
Afternoon Play: OWLS
A fictional story written and narrated by Paul Evans and based on an island legend about a brother and sister who were bound by a wish sworn on a barn owl feather, which in turn became a curse that proved fatal. Recorded on location in Scotland; isolation, human desire and the supernatural are explored in this unsettling drama about the relationship between hope and desire, Man and Nature.
Old man … ………………..Jimmy Yuill
Sister ………………………..Alyth McCormack
Old man as a young boy…. .David McLellan
Sister as a young girl ……….Michaela Sweeney
WILDLIFE SOUND RECORDIST: Chris Watson
PRODUCER / DIRECTOR: Sarah Blunt
