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A documentary from the future with a stark warning for humanity.

A documentary from the future with a stark warning for humanity. Narrated by an artificially intelligent Michael Buerk, Pillar of Salt looks back over the shoulder of time.

A tape has appeared on a desk in the Radio 4 office. No-one is sure how it got there. All that was written on it were five words: 'A warning from the future'. Some of the tape is damaged, but what remains is played out because the budget won’t stretch to repairing it. Put together in haste by a BBC producer decades from now and narrated by an artificially intelligent Michael Buerk, Pillar of Salt looks back over the shoulder of the intervening years and shines a light on why and how everything crumbled into dust.
 
From the makers of the Moral Maze and The Skewer, this is the story of our time viewed through a cracked retrospectoscope. Featuring a host of recognisable voices, it will examine society’s ethical and moral conundrums via bogus talking heads, fake archive footage, and made-up news broadcasts, as we chart everything that happened between now and then.

Narrator: AI Michael Buerk
Writers: Jon Holmes, Beth Granville and Gareth Ceredig
Performers: Jake Yapp, Lu Corfield and Samuel James
Sound design: Tony Churnside
Production co-ordinator: Pete Liggins 
Producers: Dan Tierney and Jon Holmes
Executive producer: Helen Grady

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