Galapagos: 1. Good And Bad Optics

Limelight

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.4 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In 2025, Galapagos is an exciting new development in AI data manipulation. And Bryony is determined to use it to advance her career. But as soon as she presses the red button, she finds herself pulled along by forces she's not entirely in control of.

Thriller about big tech, data manipulation and the undermining of democracy, by Simon Scardifield and Andrew Day

Bryony.....Hannah Daniel Sydney.....Ashleigh Haddad Gaynor.....Sara Gregory Omar.....Danny Ashok Titus.....John Pfumojena Boniface.....Kel Matsena Max.....Ewan Bailey Euan…..Jamie Redford Aneni….. Ntombizodwa Ndlovu Fake Greta.....Sunja Hyde Shapeshift Man…..Hasan Dixon Sam…..Claire Cage

Production Co-ordinators.....Eleri McAuliffe and Lindsay Rees Sound Design.....Catherine Robinson and Nigel Lewis Directed by Philippa Swallow, John Norton and Emma Harding, BBC Audio Drama Wales

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:09.0	What shall I call this?
0:13.6	The Galapagos tapes?
0:16.3	Don't cry for me, whales.
0:22.7	What shall I call this?
0:25.0	The Galapagos tapes.
0:27.9	Don't cry.
0:30.8	Okay.
0:32.5	It's going to be the truth.
0:34.6	Just in case, at some point, that's what I need to fall back on.
0:38.3	So here goes.
0:40.3	Chapter 1, Zimbabwe, 2025.
0:44.3	It didn't feel like anything major was about to happen.
0:49.3	More like the opposite. I wanted to be at the center of everything,
0:53.3	and I was right out on like the further
0:56.9	stage you can imagine. Standing in, I swear literally, the middle of flipping nowhere. It was a little
1:03.8	gold mine. A gold mine sounds good but it's, well it's a hole in the ground, basically, with a big, ugly fence
1:13.5	around it and surrounded by puddles and tents and stuff.
1:18.5	Deserted, apart from some scruffy security guards.
1:21.7	No actual mining going on, which was not my fault, but definitely my problem.
1:27.9	Well, I didn't see any protesters.
1:29.8	You wandered off.
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