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The Birds

By: Daphne du Maurier, BBC
Narrated by: Full Cast
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Here is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of horror. The idea for this famous story came to du Maurier one day when she was walking across to a farm from her house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field while above him the seagulls were diving and wheeling. She developed an idea about the birds becoming hostile and attacking him.In her story, the birds become hostile after a harsh winter with little food. First the seagulls, then birds of prey, and finally even small birds all turn against mankind. The nightmarish vision appealed to Alfred Hitchcock, who turned it into the celebrated film.
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And I thought hitchock wrote the birds but it was du Maurier she was an amazing author
Glad it didn’t go on for too long.

Yikes that’s scary

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