Galapagos: 3. The Green, Green, Screens of Home
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Speculative thriller about big tech, data manipulation and the undermining of democracy, by Simon Scardifield and Andrew Day.
Bryony is increasingly excited by her new role working for Sydney and Shapeshift, using the very latest data manipulation AI. And Sydney's promised to arrange specialist cancer treatment for sister Gaynor in the US. But journalist Sam is on Bryony's tail and she's asking uncomfortable questions.
Bryony.....Hannah Daniel Sydney.....Ashleigh Haddad Gaynor.....Sara Gregory Omar.....Danny Ashok Euan…..Jamie Redford 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. |
| 0:12.5 | Listening to my own voice, telling it now, I mean, there were lots of times I could have put more of the pieces of the puzzle together. |
| 0:22.6 | But even with Karakoga dying, |
| 0:26.6 | Shapeshift felt like an amazing opportunity. |
| 0:31.6 | It was a hundred times better than everything else around me. |
| 0:35.6 | My sister Gaynor getting sicker by the day. |
| 0:38.8 | Poor Ewan falling to bits. |
| 0:42.2 | I mean, with all that happening, |
| 0:43.6 | it was wonderful to have this great salary, |
| 0:46.9 | a boss who believed in me, |
| 0:48.3 | clients all over the world. |
| 0:50.5 | Big, big shit going down everywhere. |
| 0:58.4 | Music Big, big shit going down everywhere. Galapagos by Simon Scardofield and Andrew Day. |
| 1:04.6 | Part three. |
| 1:10.3 | I've been |
| 1:11.5 | A la Prue |
| 1:12.9 | Bravo, they loved you |
| 1:17.7 | Madame Le Pen is taking her time to commit |
| 1:21.0 | because her people don't understand tech |
| 1:23.5 | and won't admit it |
| 1:24.5 | She came across as pretty smart |
| 1:25.9 | She asked if the algorithm can read French Well, I didn't know the answer to that one. Nonsense. You explained concordance data to them. Not bad going. I barely understand it myself. Don't do that. Don't put yourself down. It's just a little. It's just nothing, Brianie, and nobody needs you to be little. Okay, okay, sorry. |
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