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Sour Hall

By: Laura Kirwan-Ashman
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Episodes
  • Trailer
    Jan 14 2021

    Releasing on 25th January, Sour Hall follows George and Ash, an interracial lesbian couple who move to an isolated farm high up on the Yorkshire moors. As they settle into their new life as dairy farmers, a Boggart sets about tormenting both of them, exacerbating the sources of their pain and gorging on their energy, ruining George’s dairy products, and distancing the couple from one another.

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    1 min
  • Ep 1
    Jan 25 2021

    Ash arrives at her girlfriend George's family farm, ready to start a new life of rural bliss. But out in the middle of the Yorkshire countryside, things go bump in the night and Ash isn't the only one hiding from the past.

    This episode of Sour Hall contains strong language, sexual activity, implied miscarriage, sexually threatening language and a scene of a violent nature.

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    31 mins
  • Ep 2
    Jan 26 2021

    Ash learns more about George's family history from the village gossip, which leads to a drunken night of fun that ends in peril. Strange noises and George's secrecy about the dairy cause tension and pique Ash's curiosity.

    This episode of Sour Hall contains strong language, sexual activity, mentions of pregnancy, racist microaggressions, implied past child abuse, and scenes involving fire.

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    24 mins








boggart
noun

A mischievous character from English folklore, boggarts attach themselves to a person or location. Though they can occasionally be considered merely impish or even helpful, boggarts are more often characterised as malevolent and hostile.

Sour Hall’s resident boggart is destructive and torments George and Ash by exacerbating the sources of their pain, drawing out past traumas and current fears.
It's been such a thrill to adapt and expand upon Naomi Booth's beautiful and atmospheric short story. The horror of Sour Hall is intrinsically rooted in the psychology of unresolved trauma, and the ways in which that trauma manifests and challenges us to face it. I wanted to approach this story from a distinctly femgaze perspective and to focus on the characters' emotions and relationships, how the horror element manipulates and threatens these, and to highlight the healing power of love and of empathy, both for ourselves and for others.
Directing Sour Hall on location on an actual farm in Yorkshire was such a unique and wonderful experience for myself and our incredible cast and crew, and that, paired with the amazing 360/binaural sound technology we used, has resulted in something that will hopefully feel really immersive, chilling, and moving for listeners.
- Laura Kirwan-Ashman

A peek into the world of Sour Hall

Are these desperate times?
  • Are these desperate times?
Desperate times leads folk to do... all sorts
The gooseberry
  • The gooseberry
Georgie Porgie's not here!
Don't mock the boggart
  • Don't mock the boggart
What if the boggart gets me?
Stay out of the dairy
  • Stay out of the dairy
You girls should never have come back here
  • Are these desperate times?
  • Desperate times leads folk to do... all sorts
  • The gooseberry
  • Georgie Porgie's not here!
  • Don't mock the boggart
  • What if the boggart gets me?
  • Stay out of the dairy
  • You girls should never have come back here

Behind the scenes at the recording of Sour Hall

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Lucy Fallon

About the performer


Lucy Fallon is best known for her performance as Bethany Platt in Coronation Street, a role for which she was the 2018 winner of the National Television Award for Serial Drama Performance, the winner of the 2018 British Soap Awards for Best Actress and Best Female Dramatic Performance as well as winning the 2017 Inside Soap Award for Best Actress.

Pearl Mackie

About the performer


Pearl Mackie is an accomplished screen and stage actress best known for roles such as Bill Potts in Doctor Who and Lulu in The Birthday Party at The Harold Pinter Theatre. Pearl is also a well-known voice in the audio industry and starred in Forest 404 for the BBC and was seen most recently in Michael Winterbottom’s Greed.

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Great story odd additions

The story, and performance, is excellent however there's a strange amount of references to sex seemingly needlessly rammed in to this just feels like a waste of time unless of course this will later become relevant

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Gripping!

Started listening and couldn't stop! It's a gripping creepy tale that really gave me the chills. Love that it's set in Yorkshire too (Being Yorkshire based). Really impressive how the effects of unresolved trauma were played out through horror and hauntings, very cleverly done. Also really appreciated the theme of difference, diversity, identity and belonging throughout. Yay representation! Excellent acting. Love it! 10/10.

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Compelling and Well Produced. More to come??

An immersive experience I had to listen to until finished in one session. Unusual story line combined with great acting and convincing sound effects had me looking over my shoulder at times.

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Not bad

it wasn't awful but it wasn't amazing! makes it better if you listen before bed with your headphones in




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Would recommend

Enjoyed; different to my usual choice. Great to have a lesbian interacial couple as the main characters

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Absolutely brilliant and immediate folk horror

This was captivating and beguiling, really using the audio format to its fullest potential.

Great folk horror that is comfortable being its own thing. Brilliant representation too, which is utterly natural and a vital seed from which the insidious horror grows — but nevertheless instantly relatable and terrifying, no matter who you are.

Recommended!

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Freaky and enjoyable

Listened to one episode a night and really enjoyed the freaky ending with the Boghart

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Really wanted to enjoy this.

But sadly my enthusiasm ran out after the continued warnings about content and how frightening it was.
It wasn't frightening or mildly scary,nor overly adult.
It was tediously over produced, the surround sound didn't really do anything to me other than confuse and cause too much sensory imput, making the spoken dialogue muffled and hard to hear clearly.
I really wanted to like this as it seems like a great idea for an audio play, but the ending let it down as completely unbelievable and unrealistic.
My stars are for the voice actors,who despite the weak story line did very well in with the material,but it was as far as being scary? Only if you are 14 I suppose. Sorry audible.

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Not bad but needs some work

Good performance by the 2 main characters, and some pretty decent sound effects and samples. My only issue was really where the story was going. I’m not giving too much away but there could have been so much more to the story. I was left a little disappointed. I hope this isnt the last we’ll hear of this Sour Hall.

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a good quick listen. kept me entertained all day

A fun listen. Well described and acted. I listened to it over the course of the day. more podcasts please

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