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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.

4 Extra Debut. Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets – “hang on, let me just put you on hold”. From October 2020.

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?

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 – hang on, let me just put you on hold...

Tom	...... Tom Neenan
Heidi ...... Jenny Bede
The Operators	...... Nina Sosanya, Alison Senior, Lucy Thackeray, Robert Wilfort
Tony ...... Dan Tetsell
The Waiter ...... Naz Osmanoglu

Written by Tom Neenan

Director:  David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2020.

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