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RQ Network Feed Drop - The Program audio series: All unsaved progress will be lost

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5.0734 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This month we are featuring an episode of one of many exciting podcasts on the RQ Network: The Program audio series


The Program audio series is a dark science fiction anthology set in a future in which Money, State, and God have become fused into a single entity. The show focuses on ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world. And for them, it is not this future that is terrifying – it is our present.


In this episode called “All unsaved progress will be lost” a beloved System Administrator suddenly disappears, leaving Sam a poor stonemason to embark on a lifelong quest to preserve her memory.


You can find the episode transcript at programaudioseries.com/32-all-unsaved-progress-will-be-lost/ including credits and a list of references.


The Program audio series is created and produced by IMS. Introduction and outro by Helen Gould


You can listen to The Program audio series on the Rusty Quill website, on Acast, on its official website, or wherever you get your podcasts.


Content warnings

Permanent Bodily Harm

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. It's Helen here, voice of Azu from Rusty Quill Gaming, and Inola from

0:05.4

Stella Firma. Today we're sharing an episode from one of the podcasts on the RQ Network, The Programme.

0:11.3

The program audio series is a dark science fiction anthology set in a future in which money,

0:16.9

state and God have become fused into a single entity. The show focuses on ordinary people inhabiting

0:23.9

this extraordinary world, and for them, it's not this future that is terrifying, it's our present.

0:28.9

In this episode, called All Unsaved Progress will be Lost, a beloved system administrator suddenly

0:35.2

disappears, leaving Sam, a poor stone mason, to embark on a

0:39.1

lifelong quest to preserve her memory. To listen to more, click on the link in the description,

0:44.3

or search for the program audio series, wherever you get your podcasts. You can find more information

0:50.0

on rusty quill.com or programaudioseries.com. That's program with 1M. Have fun and enjoy the episode.

1:01.8

The back end and the front end intersect in the most unusual ways. Not to present new things, but to present things as new.

1:15.6

The simulated realities of the program's back end are endless.

1:23.6

But that doesn't mean they don't end.

1:29.3

Sooner or later, the system administrators tasked with running each individual simulation need to leave their protectorates.

1:39.2

The departure may occur in many ways.

1:42.1

Some of them planned and orderly.

1:45.0

Some of them decidedly less so.

1:50.4

The end result, however, is always the same.

1:55.2

A whole.

1:58.9

This is the impending destiny of Simulation 2833-91156.2828.

2:06.6

Version 77C.

2:09.6

Or, as its inhabitants know it, Simulon.

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