by Robert McCrum, dramatised by Denys Hawthorne

The enormous amount of information accumulated by Civil Service computer banks has placed more and more responsibility upon the men who manage them. The potential abuse of the system is obvious, the possibilities of corruption infinite.
On the day the Head of the Computer Directorate retires, one of his staff apparently commits suicide it is soon clear that the two events are intricately related within a society where secrecy has become an end in itself.
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Afon 3.2 pm)