The Future of Radio 

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The Future of Radio

Comedy: Satire

Comedy series making fun of technology and radio.

Comedy series making fun of technology and radio, written by Jerome Vincent and Stephen Dinsdale

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William Beck

Emma Kilbey

Lizzy Watts

David Brett

Chris Stanton

Jessica Carroll

Jerome Vincent

Stephen Dinsdale

David Blount

The Future of Radio: Series 2: The Absence App

The Absence App

Series 2

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Audio boffins develop an app that stops communication – to give us all a bit of peace.

4 Extra Debut. An app is developed to stop communication. Secrets of the Institute of Radiophonic Evolution. With William Beck. From 2016.

These programmes reveal the secret work of the Institute of Radiophonic Evolution in South Mimms - drawing on conference calls, voice notes and life-logs, to tell a compelling and strange story of the technological lengths to which the researchers will go to push forward the boundaries of the emerging digital technologies.

Each week a jiffy bag of sound files arrives at the BBC. We listen to the contents to discover what backroom boffins Luke Mourne and Professor Trish Baldock (ably assisted by Shelley – on work experience) have been up to.

In this episode, they develop the Absence App and use it to disrupt a politically controversial radio broadcast.
 
Luke..................William Beck
Trish..................Emma Kilbey
Shelley...............Lizzy Watts
Felix....................David Brett

With Chris Stanton and Jessica Carroll

Written by Jerome Vincent & Stephen Dinsdale
 
Producer David Blount

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in January 2016.

The Future of Radio: Series 2

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