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The Computer Speaks: Secondary Memory

The Computer Speaks

Secondary Memory

BBC Radio 4 - The Computer Speaks, Secondary Memory

An original short story by Danielle McLaughlin. Read by Samuel Barnett.

Our relationship with computers is an intimate one. What would they say about us if they could speak? Read by Samuel Barnett.

An original short story for radio by Danielle McLaughlin. 

Our relationship with computers is an intimate one. What do they know of our lives? And what would they say about us if they could speak? The second of three stories about computers finding their voice. 

Danielle McLaughlin's stories have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, The Penny Dreadful, Long Story, Short and The New Yorker. She is currently Editor for Short Stories in English at Southword Journal. Her debut collection of short stories, Dinosaurs on Other Planets, will be published in Ireland in October 2015 by The Stinging Fly Press, and in the UK (John Murray), US (Random House) and Germany (Luchterhand) in 2016.

Producer: Mair Bosworth
Reader: Samuel Barnett.

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Series of three short stories about computers finding their voice

Series of three short stories about the intimate relationship we have with our computers and what they might say if they could talk

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