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Stephen Gregory Tweet Takeover Week 1

Horror Fiction writer and keen bird watcher Stephen Gregory sets out on his first week's favourite episodes from the Tweet of the Day back catalogue.

Horror Fiction writer and keen bird watcher Stephen Gregory sets out on his first week selecting favourite episodes from the Tweet of the Day back catalogue. As a keen birdwatcher all of his novels have some elements of an ornithological theme. With either birds in the title such as Wakening the Crow from 2014, or have birds as subject to build the tension into his world of macabre such as Blood of Angels featuring a jackdaw with a broken beak. His first novel The Cormorant based on observing cormorants in Wales received the 1987 Somerset Maugham Award. Stephen recalls how the cormorant bird inspired his work and also how he was impressed by the harpy eagle in South America.

Producer by Maggie Ayre.

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Sun 15 Jul 2018 08:58
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