How Hitchcock's 'The Birds' speaks to 21st-century anxieties

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This is a CBC podcast. Take a look at that sparrow. Tree dweller, tiny chirper, taker of dusty baths, just an innocent little bird. or so it wants us to believe. Welcome to Ideas.

I'm Nala Ayed. Once in the mid-twentieth century, sparrows joined with other birds. They massed by the thousands. They formed a worldwide bird army, and then they attacked, breaching houses. die bombing children, killing and mutilating with their hideous beaks.

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