The Pilgrim: The Winter Queen: The BBC Radio 4 fantasy drama series Audiobook (Free)

Each year, on the winter solstice, the small town of Melcombe observes an annual custom, the origins and meaning which are misplaced in the mists of time. A torch-lit procession to the ancient tomb of Cairndale Knapp, overlooking the town, places the old sunlight to bed, and greets the brand new sun each day, restoring balance to the entire year.

This year, however, Mr Sam Notice has bought the Knapp, and provides set about landscaping it. And, using the felling of an ancient yew tree, the origins and meaning of the outdated custom springtime malevolently alive, as the wintertime Queen can be finally released from her prison, and bent on revenge.

Told over both days of the wintertime solstice – Pilgrim walks again between the worlds of magick and of males.