Catherine Wynne
Reader in English and associate dean for Research and Enterprise at the University of Hull; literary scholar who has written on Daphne du Maurier and contributed analysis of The Birds in this episode.
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Apr 1, 2026 • 54min
How Hitchcock's 'The Birds' speaks to 21st-century anxieties
W. Scott Poole, historian of modern horror; Lynn Kozak, scholar of ancient literature and fear; Catherine Wynne, literary critic of du Maurier. They explore why birds became terrifying: migrations and environmental loss, Hitchcock’s shift to domestic and psychological dread, ancient ornithophobia and group behavior, and the story’s resonance with nuclear, technological and ecological anxieties.
