Wraith: Episode 1: Breach
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
A cutting-edge thriller about an Artificial Intelligence takeover, written in consultation with leading AI and cybersecurity experts.
During a routine overnight update at the headquarters of a major UK telecoms giant, two IT workers unknowingly set something terrifying in motion. They've started an LCE - an AI Loss of Control Event.
Over the course of one night, a handful of staff race to regain control as forces far beyond the building begin to close in. What’s been unleashed threatens to change everything — and soon there may be no way to put it back.
This is a very a real and disastrous phenomenon, and it could happen to us very soon.
Starring Edward Bluemel and Corinna Brown.
Artificial Intelligence consultant: Saffron Huang. Cybersecurity consultant: Adam Orton.
Written by James Dobbyn and Anthony Povah.
Cast: Iain - Edward Bluemel Mel - Corinna Brown Zaina - Fatima Adoum Roland - Philip Bretherton Jess - Alix Wilton Regan Nisha - Seyan Sarvan Sam - Kenneth Omole Andrea - Beth Chalmers Oliver - Sean Rigby Marcus - Wilf Scolding John - Joseph Mydell Susan - Karen Bryson Lyssa - Catriona Stirling Supporting roles - Sean Baker and members of the cast
Original Music by Steven D Griffiths and Isla Noir
Artificial Intelligence consultant: Saffron Huang Cybersecurity consultant: Adam Orton Sound Designer: Lucinda Mason Brown Director: John Wakefield Story Producer: Sarah Olley Producer: Chris Grezo Executive Producer: John Scott Dryden
A Strange Boy production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:12.7 | Witnesses to genuine poltergeist activity are at 1960s Yorkshire family with an overactive imagination. |
| 0:20.6 | Join me, Danny Robbins, and my team of paranormal experts as we dig deep into the past, |
| 0:26.4 | reopening classic cases and searching for the truths they left behind. |
| 0:32.1 | Uncanny cold cases. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.4 | Welcome to Limelight. |
| 0:38.7 | Episodes are released weekly, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:41.9 | But if you're in the UK, you can listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:50.7 | This series was written in consultation with artificial intelligence experts. |
| 0:56.4 | Everything that follows could really happen, and happen soon. |
| 1:05.0 | Slow down. You don't know where you're going. |
| 1:09.3 | We're supposed to be there half an hour ago. |
| 1:11.2 | Well, we won't get there any faster by going in the wrong direction. |
| 1:14.4 | Try checking the sat navigate. |
| 1:17.3 | Lesser, set route for 105 Astor Park Road. |
| 1:22.1 | I'm sorry. To do that, you'll need to be online. |
| 1:25.6 | Useless. What's the point of my right of way, I'm Jop? |
| 1:29.3 | John. |
| 1:30.3 | Bloody lunatics. |
| 1:31.3 | Don't swear. |
| 1:32.3 | I'll find a map. |
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