The Program audio series
By IMS | Writing an audio drama sci-fi anthology about history of the future | Not at AI
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Subscribers: 448
Reviews: 8
Episodes: 44
htth
Jun 26, 2026
Absolutely amazing, and uncomfortably prophetic.
Nov 13, 2025
mikesto
Jul 28, 2024
This is fascinating.
2bepainted
May 31, 2024
Nov 16, 2023
NGC300
Aug 30, 2022
Fantastic! The production is at par with BBC's Dangerous Visions.
2bepainted
Aug 28, 2022
Wow.
Nov 18, 2021
Description
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 inhabiting this extraordinary world.
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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Single source of truth
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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[INTRO] Jakob's notebook: The Promised Planet
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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The Program Shows of Accolade: Absolutely No Adventures, Remnants & The World to Come
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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[UNLOCKED] Decompiling The Program: Contemporary Cube Theory + BIG NEWS
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Contemporary Cube Theory
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Hard fork
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Random number generator [FREE bonus episode]
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Free trial period
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Stories of Denial, Despair, and Devotion
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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[INTRO] Software end of life
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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All unsaved progress will be lost
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May 29, 2024 |
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Not safe for work
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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The Program Shows of Accolade: Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature, Wireland Ranch & Gospels of the Flood
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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You don't have sufficient privileges to make changes
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Infinite loop
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Memory leak
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May 24, 2023 |
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In the blink of A.I.
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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How to keep device drivers from crashing
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Planned obsolescence
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Discreet optimization
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Overclocking
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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[INTRO] Jakob’s notebook: Antivirus solutions for home and business
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Homepage not found
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Cheat code
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Abandonware
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Killer app
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Create, Read, Update, Delete
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Force eject
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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What you see is what you get
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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More parrot than predator
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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This AI not to be used to fabricate paperclips
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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[INTRO] Jakob's notebook: Quit without saving
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Motherboard
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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My Turing-complete life
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Right align, justify
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Parent-child processing
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Move past and break things
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Jan 01, 2020 |
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White hat, black hat
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Dec 15, 2019 |
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White Algorithm's burden - part III
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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White Algorithm's burden - part II
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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White Algorithm's burden - part I
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Four ways to stop your system from freezing
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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You had me at "Hello World"
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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The Program comes for us all
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Nov 11, 2019 |