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The Hauntening

Series 3

Sleeping

Duration: 14 minutes

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

Available for years

Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as writer and performer Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets.

In this episode, we discover there is something even worse than a nightmare as sweet dreams turn very very sour.

Modern technology is terrifying. The average smartphone carries out three-point-three-six 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?

Written by Tom Neenan

Tom ....... Tom Neenan
Heidi ....... Jenny Bede
Charlie ....... Andy Nyman
The Advert ....... Rebecca Gethings

Director: David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2020. Show less

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