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An exploration of a relationship between a daughter and a father… After the fact he’s been paid to play the part of her dad for 15 years came to light.
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If you enjoyed this episode, you will probably enjoy ep 15 What you see is what you get.
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A man discovers a way to message himself in the past, threatening his entire future.
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If you enjoyed this episode, you will probably enjoy ep 36 Hard fork.
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A story of a war criminal who chooses the losing side and thrives and a war hero who joins the winners but doesn’t find victory.
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If you enjoyed this episode, you will probably enjoy ep 35 Free trial period.
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Your son is a pedophile who never acted on his impulses. What do you do when children in the neighbourhood suddenly start going missing? Part 3 of 3.
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If you enjoyed this episode, you will probably enjoy ep 37 Contemporary Cube Theory.
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Your son is a pedophile who never acted on his impulses. What do you do when children in the neighbourhood suddenly start going missing? Part 2 of 3.
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Your son is a pedophile who never acted on his impulses. What do you do when children in the neighbourhood suddenly start going missing? Part 1 of 3.
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Imagine you could get sentenced to death through downvoting. Listen to a survivor tell her harrowing story.
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If you enjoyed this episode, you will probably enjoy ep 7 Move past and break things.
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Set during the biggest revolution in history, the opening episode recounts a much more important story: that of a summer love lost.
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If you enjoyed this episode, you will probably enjoy ep 2 Four ways to stop your system from freezing.
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From the publisher's feed
A science fiction anthology set in a future in which Money, State, and God became fused into a single entity called the Program. Each episode is a self-contained story focusing on ordinary people…
Best rated episodes include "White Algorithm's burden" (true crime), "Four ways to stop your system from freezing" (drama), "Contemporary Cube Theory" (academic lecture), "How to keep device drivers from crashing" (comedy), "Overclocking" (adventure), and "All unsaved progress will be lost" (alternate history).
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Our current favourite review: "The Program is more than an audio drama ("radio drama" if you're old school) - it’s a thought experiment examining the tradeoffs between different economic and political systems (capitalism, socialism, communism, hybrid models) challenging the listener with an uncomfortable question: Would you rather live in a free society, or a fair one? The show uses speculative sociology to blur the line between utopia and dystopia, making listeners question their own reality (literally - some stories are set in a simulation). But for all its big ideas, the series never forgets the emotional core that makes it resonate. This is smart, grounded, slice-of-life sci-fi in the tradition of Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ted Chiang, and Black Mirror - and all hail the algorithm that recommended it!"
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