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    Wraith: Episode 1: Breach

    05/08/2026 | 29 mins.
    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
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    Wraith: Trailer

    05/04/2026 | 2 mins.
    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.
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    The Dentist: Episode 5

    03/27/2026 | 27 mins.
    Kerry’s efforts to assume her sister’s identity and pose as a dentist have been disastrous.
    Between the high body count and a gangster pursuing her for a quarter of a million pounds, the life of quiet desperation she was previously living seems very attractive right now…
    D.C. Jackson’s darkly comical crime thriller concludes.
    Cast:
    DI Hickman … David Ireland
    Paul Rennie… Jonathan Watson
    Jaconelli and The Minister… Gavin Mitchell
    Leanne … Gabriel Quigley
    Kasia … Leah Byrne
    Bob … Grant O’Rourke
    Sapphire … Sylvia Jackson
    Studio Production: Andy Hay and Gav Murchie
    Production Coordinator: Ellie Marsh
    Original music and sound design: Fraser Jackson
    Additional keyboards: Tony Graham
    Commissioning Editors: Alison Hindell and Rhian Roberts.

    A BBC Audio Scotland Production directed by Kirsty Williams
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    The Dentist: Episode 4

    03/20/2026 | 28 mins.
    When Kerry made the snap decision to assume her dead sister’s identity, she didn’t think through the consequences of posing as a dentist.
    So far those consequences have been pretty fatal.
    And now, as she digs deeper and deeper into her deception, she finds herself butting up against the criminal underworld.
    Cast:
    Kasia … Leah Byrne
    Leanne … Gabriel Quigley
    Paul Rennie… Jonathan Watson
    DI Hickman … David Ireland
    Bob … Grant O’Rourke
    Studio Production: Andy Hay and Gav Murchie
    Production Coordinator: Ellie Marsh
    Original music and sound design: Fraser Jackson
    Additional keyboards: Tony Graham

    A BBC Audio Scotland Production directed by Kirsty Williams
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    The Dentist: Episode 3

    03/13/2026 | 28 mins.
    Darkly comic crime thriller by D.C. Jackson.
    When Kerry makes the snap decision to assume her dead sister’s identity, she doesn’t think through the consequences of posing as a dentist.
    And those consequences turn out to be pretty fatal...
    Cast:
    Leanne … Gabriel Quigley
    Kasia … Leah Byrne
    Bob and Toby… Grant O’Rourke
    Stewart … Jonathan Watson
    DI Hickman … David Ireland
    Jaconelli … Gavin Mitchell
    Studio Production: Andy Hay and Gav Murchie
    Production Coordinator: Ellie Marsh
    Original music and sound design: Fraser Jackson
    Additional keyboards: Tony Graham

    A BBC Audio Scotland Production directed by Kirsty Williams

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