Get Carter: The Bloody Chamber

RADIO 4, 10.45AM

As part of an Angela Carter season, the Radio 4 drama serial this week is a selection of five of Carter’s short fairy stories, dramatised for radio by Olivia Hetreed. Much of Carter’s fiction is occupied

with interrogating feminism, and her fairy stories do this with a distinctive combination of sparkle and bite. Today’s episode is the story of a woman traded to a mysterious lord in a sketchy game of cards. When she refuses him in his ruined palazzo, he reveals his true dangerous nature.