The Birds, Daphne du Maurier
The Birds, Daphne du Maurier
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The Birds

Author: Daphne du Maurier, BBC

Narrator: Full Cast

Unabridged: 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2007


Synopsis

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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About Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989) has been called one of the great shapers of popular culture and the modern imagination. Among her more famous works are The Scapegoat, Jamaica Inn, Rebecca, and the short story "The Birds," all of which were subsequently made into films—the latter three directed by Alfred Hitchcock.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on November 01, 2024

A scary story (and film) for Halloween! I saw Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) again last night, and loved it perhaps more than ever, one of his very best films (well, let's say, in the top ten, because there are a lot of them, of course). It is based in part on a short story of the same name by D......more

Goodreads review by Candi on November 16, 2018

"The sky was hard and leaden, and the brown hills that had gleamed in the sun the day before looked dark and bare. The east wind, like a razor, stripped the trees, and the leaves, crackling and dry, shivered and scattered with the wind’s blast… Black winter had descended in a single night." Indeed, m......more

Goodreads review by Mohsin on April 21, 2021

Birds about to cook up something. I absolutely loved reading Daphne du Maurier's "The Birds" and finished it in one sitting. Actually, it is a short story but is really not that short either. Birds lead their attack. Even though the cover of the book shown here has a shot from Alfred Hitchcock's film w......more

Goodreads review by Chris Lee (away) on October 15, 2024

A short, excellent book! Yes. Birds do start attacking people, but the real horror is linking nature and destruction around real war and sieges. A truly unsettling experience. 4/5......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on September 04, 2022

"In the distance he could see the clay hills, white and clean against the heavy pallor of the sky. Something black rose from behind them, like a smudge at first, then widening, becoming deeper. The smudge became a cloud; and the cloud divided again into five other clouds, spreading north, east, sout......more