Mythical Creatures emerge on BBC Sounds
Artwork by Kingsley Nebechi
Mythical Creatures is 7digital’s new audio series for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
Across ten episodes, fantasy writer Rhianna Pratchett makes a quest to discover creatures of myth and folklore from around the British Isles and find out what they reveal about our history and ourselves.
Rhianna - daughter of Discworld creator Sir Terry Pratchett - seeks the human realities that inspired black dogs, selkies, giants, dragons, wulvers, hobs, redcaps, mermaids, kelpies and banshees.
Mythical Creatures airs on BBC Radio 4 from Monday 18th December and the whole series is available on BBC Sounds, now.
“Absolutely enchanting... an intoxicating combination of enthusiasm and willingness to believe”
The series features magical contributions from gifted storytellers and experts on myth and folklore.
Original music is by LA-based composer Ben MacDougall and the series was produced by Sarah Harrison and Lorna Skingley.
Rhianna and her microphone-wielding team travelled to historic locations including Bungay in Suffolk, Penshaw Monument in Sunderland, Hermitage Castle in the Scottish Borders, sandy Conwy Bay and mountainous Meirionnydd in Wales.
“Presented with an inspiring zest for magic... and produced with verve and vivid imagination”
7digital have made hundreds of hours of factual and arts audio for BBC platforms. Recent commissions include:
Everything is Everything: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill at 25 with Laura Mvula
We, The People, Are Barbados with Candice Brathwaite
Playing at Power with Matthew Sweet and Johnny Flynn
The Documentary: Back to School with Sarah Lynne Bowman
Why Time Flies (And How to Slow It Down) with Armando Iannucci
Mother, Nature, Sons with Nell Frizell
Gone but not forgotten: Syria's missing persons
Recall of the Rock with Helen Mort
Thought Pattern, Pattern Thought with Joanne Limburg
In The Child’s Best Interests with Fergus Walsh
So Many Books, So Little Time with Mark Hodkinson
Award-winning series Michael Morpurgo’s Folk Journeys
