The Hauntening

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

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

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Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets in this modern ghost story.

Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets in these modern ghost stories. In this episode, a taxi app offers some unexpected destinations.

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 a taxi app offers some unexpected destinations.

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?


Starring
Tom ..... Tom Neenan
Heidi ..... Jenny Bede
Amar ..... Naz Osmanoglu
Taxi Controller ..... Georgie Fuller

Written by Tom Neenan
Produced by David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for the BBC

www.pozzitive.co.uk

The show is a Pozzitive production, and is produced by David Tyler whose other credits include Agendum, The Brig Society, Giles Wemmbley Hogg, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Cabin Pressure, John Finnemore’s Double Acts, Jack & Millie, Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!, Shush!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Armando Iannucci’s Charm Offensive, The Castle, The 3rd Degree, The 99p Challenge, My First Planet, Radio Active & Bigipedia. His TV credits include Paul Merton – The Series, Spitting Image, Absolutely, The Paul Calf Video Diary, Three Fights Two Weddings & A Funeral, Coogan’s Run, The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria Wood’s dinnerladies.

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