Episode 1: Breach

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