Cuckoo (by Lucy Winter) | Decade of Dread #29

Wrong Station

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Enjoy 31 episodes in 31 days as Wrong Station celebrates a “Decade of Dread”. // SOMETHING COLD IN THE WARMTH. SOMETHING STRANGE IN THE FAMILIAR. WHY WON'T YOU NOTICE SOMETHING'S WRONG? "Cuckoo." a chilling new tale... from The Wrong Station. Written by Lucy Winter, and performed by Anthony Botelho. Celebrate 10 seasons of Wrong Station by subscribing to our Patreon at ⁠www.patreon.com/thewrongstation⁠. Explore brand new benefits, hundreds of hours of bonus content, and help ensure Wrong Station stays on the air for another 10 years. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at ⁠www.wrongstation.com/c-w. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Sainsbury's. Any way you can save me a few quid on my weekly shop?
0:03.6	Well, Jane, try your nectar prices. Every week in your nectar app, you can unlock up to 10
0:08.8	personalized discounts on things you love at Sainsbury's. A, Jainsbury's, if you will.
0:14.3	Sounds like my kind of place. Get personalized discounts with your nectar prices. That's good
0:19.1	food for all of us. Jamespris.
0:21.3	I mean Sainsbury.
0:22.8	18 plus nectar app required.
0:24.4	Unlock up to 10 your nectar prices weekly,
0:26.4	available in supermarkets online and in locals with smart shop.
0:29.2	TNCs apply.
0:36.4	This October, the wrong station celebrates a decade of dread.
0:43.0	You can read the show notes to discover terrible new ways to celebrate with us.
0:49.7	Today's episode, Cuckoo, is written by Lucy Winter and performed by Anthony Betel. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm At first the girl thought it was a cardinal, that bright splash of red against the snow.
1:50.3	When she got a little closer, though, she saw that what it looked like plumage was actually
1:55.1	a hat, a wool hat, thick and luxurious. It looked expensive, far more expensive than anything her father
2:04.5	would risk on a grubby, absent-minded child like her. Winters weren't usually harsh in the girl's
2:11.5	small town, but this year January had spitefully dragged its way into February, and then March, and the girl was sick of sitting inside.
2:21.1	Her own winter clothes were worn in secondhand, so the plush red hat was like a little gift.
2:28.3	She dropped her own gray hat in the snow and popped on the red one.
2:33.3	From somewhere in the forest came two notes of a lonely
2:37.9	bird coal. The girl lived in a little brick house in cottage country, in a town that changed its
2:45.4	face every season as the city families came and went. In summer, she could walk down to the lake to a bustle of kids and parents, some familiar,
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