Spores: Series 1: 5. Mycosis
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
A psychological horror story set in rural Wales amid the mysterious world of mycelium.
When social worker Cassie discovers mould in the flat of a vulnerable service user she puts it down to poor quality housing. But then she discovers it in her own house and begins to fear for the safety of her family.
For partner Morgan and young son Bryn, it’s not the mould that troubles them but Cassie’s mental health. As the fungus continues to grow and spread, Cassie resorts to more extreme measures to combat it. But why will no one listen to her when she warns of danger? With Hywel’s help Cassie begins to find answers. But they are not the ones she wanted.
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was condemned to speak the truth yet never be believed. A story of trust and what happens when we lose it. And of a hidden threat attacking the very thing that makes us powerful.
Written and created by Marietta Kirkbride
Cassie …… Kate O’Flynn Interviewer ….. Laurel Lefkow Hywel ….. Lloyd Meredith Morgan…… Owain Gwynn Bryn …… Macsen Ovens Joyce ….. Kezrena James Ola …… Aggy K. Adams Theo …… Richard Corgan Young Helen …… Lily Anne Lefkow
Other voices played by the cast
Production Manager: Anna de Wolff Evans Production Assistant: Teresa Milewski Executive Producer: Sara Davies
Title Music: Ioana Selaru & Melo-Zed Sound Design: Jon Nicholls
Directed and Produced by Nicolas Jackson
An Afonica production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. So Howell found my article, and that's what led you to me. |
| 0:34.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, I'm glad, Cassie. |
| 0:37.3 | I think the world will be glad of it too someday. |
| 0:40.4 | I worry that... |
| 0:42.1 | What? |
| 0:43.9 | People will judge me for how long it took me to... |
| 0:46.6 | No. |
| 0:47.2 | But if you'd contacted me before now |
| 0:49.5 | and told me my father's visions |
| 0:51.6 | were caused by a mold I couldn't see, I wouldn't have believed you either. |
| 0:57.0 | What did you think his visions were? |
| 1:01.0 | Hmm. Did my article say how I found him? |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. British Columbia, 2012. |
| 1:21.6 | My journey into neuroscience. |
| 1:23.6 | In the years I'd been visiting my father, at his home in the ancient forest, he had |
| 1:31.6 | continued having visions. His journals described these as a spectacle of light-emitting particles, |
| 1:40.3 | glow-dust, which filled his house like a snow dome. He'd write about it in the moment, |
| 1:47.9 | but then forget it entirely. He only knew it had happened because later he'd found the |
| 1:54.4 | writings from two days before. When he tried to make sense of it, my eccentric father started to believe that the glow dust must have meaning. |
| 2:06.9 | He decided that the forest on which he depended was trying to tell him something. |
| 2:13.1 | But he never worked out what that was. |
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