The Green Stuff by Ali Smith - Forest Fables podcast

In the first of a series of exclusive sound stories inspired by the UK's woodlands, the award-winning writer weaves a spellbinding tale from an encounter between a boy and a strange green child

Forests have a long tradition in literature. They represent the edge of the civilised and the unknowable. They are the home of outlaws and the otherworldly. In a new series sponsored by the Woodland Trust, the Guardian is publishing four new stories with the British woodland at their heart. Each piece is accompanied by sound design and location recordings by award-winning natural sound recordist Chris Watson and sound designer and composer Pascal Wyse.

In the first of our series, author Ali Smith reads her modern take on the woodland morality tale. It was recorded in Wandlebury Country Park in Cambridgeshire, nestled in the ditch of an iron age hill fort.

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