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  • Introducing Spark Hunter

    Introducing Spark Hunter
    2022/10/24
    Spark Hunter premieres Fall 2022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    2 分
  • Track One: About a Mortal Test

    Track One: About a Mortal Test
    2022/11/08
    Introducing Spark Hunter starring Mark Rylance and Rebecca Ferguson. We begin this week when the robot’s Maker (Rylance) is enlisted by the cyber-warfare unit to fix his creation (Ferguson) who has gone rogue. Shadow (Charles Dance) gives him two hours to avoid his worst nightmare. Realm presents Spark Hunter, a Fighter Steel audio drama. Also with Vanessa Redgrave. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    21 分
  • Track Two: About the First Move of a Thinking Machine

    Track Two: About the First Move of a Thinking Machine
    2022/11/08
    Spark Hunter continues with a dinner between man and machine. This week the robot (Rebecca Ferguson) makes her first appearance over an elaborate dinner, telling a conflict-filled story set in southern France that probes her broken thinking, yet reveals that she could break out of her laboratory mold. Also with Linda Powell & Fisher Stevens. For discussion of issues raised by Spark Hunter, listen to All Things Have Standing on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 分
  • Track Three: About a Discovery That Goes Bad

    Track Three: About a Discovery That Goes Bad
    2022/11/15
    Spark Hunter flies through the desert. Our hero (Rebecca Ferguson) shares her innermost joy & despair with her Maker (Mark Rylance) when a discovery goes bad. With poetry and music, the robot tests her welcome in Moorish Morocco, an ancient civilization full of secrets, one buried high in the Atlas Mountains. Also with Edward Hibbert & Mary Beard.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    23 分
  • Track Four: About the Sensitivity of a Thing

    Track Four: About the Sensitivity of a Thing
    2022/11/15
    Spark Hunter stays on a path toward a deeper consciousness. Surrounded by intelligence agents, the smartest AI in the world (Rebecca Ferguson) descends into a dark psychological hole. She-a thing-is overwhelmed by tastes and smells, yet she seeks her place in the world. The answers prove elusive while her Maker (Mark Rylance) parries a deadly threat. Also with Sting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    19 分
  • Track Five: About Her Lost Love

    Track Five: About Her Lost Love
    2022/11/29
    In the abyss, Spark Hunter seeks the spark of humanity. The robot (Rebecca Ferguson) is growing. Her friendships have human depth. In the New York art world, complexity turns dangerous, for herself and those around her. What do love & despair mean for a machine? Also with Kathleen Turner & Richard E. Grant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 分
  • Track Six: About Her Psychological Despair

    Track Six: About Her Psychological Despair
    2022/12/06
    Spark Hunter in Colombia, where her innocence is tested. Twice. Music is the universal language, but is it enough to keep the robot (Rebecca Ferguson) from self-destructing? Her Maker (Mark Rylance), the genius roboticist, is desperate and running out of options. What happens when human and machine connect on a level once thought impossible? For discussion of issues raised by Spark Hunter, listen to All Things Have Standing on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    26 分
  • Track Seven: About Evolutionary Programming and Her Epiphany

    Track Seven: About Evolutionary Programming and Her Epiphany
    2022/12/13
    Spark Hunter claws her way back from the brink of the abyss. The robot (Rebecca Ferguson) is on a journey that feels all too human. Has evolution left her with weaknesses and flaws that even she can’t overcome? She makes a dreaded discovery and the Maker’s (Mark Rylance) guilt cascades across the dinner table. For discussion of issues raised by Spark Hunter, listen to All Things Have Standing on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    32 分