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In Naomi Alderman's Podcast, Listeners Walk Into The Story

The Walk is an immersive fictional series based in Scotland, in which the listener plays Walker, mistakenly pursued by police. "From the start, there is an imperative to keep moving," Alderman says.
Author Naomi Alderman, whose novel <em>The Power</em> won the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, in front of the Women's Prize Library at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

Dystopian thriller, The Walk, is a tale of mistaken identity, terrorism, and a life-or-death mission to walk across Scotland. But the format of this story is — unusual.

The Walk is an immersive fiction podcast, and the creators want you to listen to it while walking. It begins with a terrorist

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