The Good Listener [GCHQ]


(4.8 stars; 2 reviews)

Carte Blanche Drama, The Good Listener Episode 1 of 3  created by Fin Kennedy and Boz Temple-Morris Written by Fin Kennedy Inside spy agency GCHQ, agents are monitoring delegates of the G20 summit when they discover a sophisticated cyber-attack targeting the UK National Grid. Senior analyst Henry Morcombe, already unconvinced about the need to monitor allies, leads the team tasked with investigating the threat. The attack is highly sophisticated and comes from an unknown source. Could it be connected to the G20? It could be criminals, terrorists or even other nation states. Henry and his team attempt to find out, needing to deploy ever more creative ways of monitoring their targets. Private Lives Drama, The Good Listener Episode 2 of 3  Following a cyber-attack on the UK National Grid, electricity substations have been infected by a computer virus that can shut them down at a moment's notice. Once blackouts commence, it would be a matter of hours before country is thrown into utter chaos. Pressure is mounting on agents at GCHQ to neutralise the threat and find the source of the attack.  Critical infrastructure is the new front line of a war that is being fought through keyboards and computer networks.  Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Drama, The Good Listener Episode 3 of 3  Following a fiendishly complex cyber-attack on the UK electricity system, hospitals, food distribution, communications systems and transport networks are thrown into disarray. Lives are at risk while GCHQ agents attempt to contain the virus. As Henry Morcombe and his team get close to the source of the attack, their suspicions fall on a most unlikely source and they now have to deal with a very inconvenient truth.  The Good Listener created by Fin Kennedy and Boz Temple-Morris Written by Anders Lustgarten Sound design by Alisdair McGregor Assistant Producer: Robbie MacInnes Produced and directed by Boz Temple-Morris A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. Credit Henry Owen Teale  Gerry Dominic Hawksley  Steve Dominic Hawksley  Jacqui Lucy Phelps  Siddiq Ashley Kumar  Alison Alison Newman  David Richard Maxted  Yu Louise-Mai Newberry  Bill Niall Ashdown  Home Secretary James Lailey  Writer Anders Lustgarten  Producer Boz Temple-Morris  Director Boz Temple-Morris  Broadcast Wed 2 Nov 2016 14:15  BBC Radio 4

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