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The Hauntening

Series 1

Episode 1: Soulmaits

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story.

Writer and performer Tom Neenan discovers what horrors may lurk in our apps and gadgets.

Modern technology is terrifying. The average smartphone carries out 3.36 billion instructions per second. The average person can only carry out one instruction in that time. Stop and think about that for a second. Sorry, that's two instructions - you won't be able to do that.

But what if modern technology was literally terrifying?

What if there really was a ghost in the machine?

Tom...................Tom Neenan
Heidi..................Jenny Bede
The Cabbie.........Roger Morlidge
Jane...................Kath Hunter

With Frances Barber as the voice of the app.

Producer: David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2017. Show less

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