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  • season 5 episode 11 - 18:09:2026, 22.22

    season 5 episode 11 - 18:09:2026, 22.22
    2026/09/18
    We measure things, catalogue them, number them, photograph them, enter them into databases and place small ticks beside them. And when we still don’t understand something, we give it a name. That usually helps. We are told what is safe. What is dangerous. What happened yesterday. What will happen tomorrow. Who is responsible. Who is innocent. What is true. And increasingly, what we ourselves are supposed to think about it. Certainty is wonderfully reassuring. It allows us to move confidently through the world without constantly stopping to ask whether we have understood any of it correctly. Of course, occasionally somebody discovers that the map is wrong. The expert was mistaken. The machine has changed its mind. The eyewitness wasn’t actually there. And the thing everyone knew to be impossible has been sitting quietly in the corner all along.
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    58 分
  • season 5 episode 10 - 11:09:2026, 08.00

    season 5 episode 10 - 11:09:2026, 08.00
    2026/09/11
    You are on the threshold of a "dream", perhaps a nightmare. Tonight, the threshold lies somewhere behind us. Beyond it is an older world. A world before electricity, before antibiotics, before anyone had thought to put instructions on dangerous things. A world of kings and fools, physicians and apothecaries, superstition and certainty. An age in which almost everything had an explanation. Unfortunately, most of the explanations were wrong. Disease could be blamed upon the stars. Misfortune upon the Devil. Madness upon God. And if something truly inexplicable occurred, there was usually a perfectly respectable man nearby prepared to explain it at considerable length. These were simpler times. Life was shorter. Justice was swifter. Medicine was considerably more adventurous. And ignorance, far from being an embarrassment, was often the accepted scientific position. Yet perhaps they were not so different from us. They believed what they were told. They trusted experts they did not understand. They obeyed rules whose origins had long been forgotten. And when things went badly wrong, they found somebody else to blame. Some habits, it seems, survive remarkably well. You are about to enter a place where history has become slightly unfastened from its frame. Where fact and superstition sit comfortably beside one another. And where the past may turn out to be rather less distant than we would like to believe. Nothing here is real, nevertheless everything you hear is true. Come on in and take a seat. It’s about to begin. Don’t worry, it won’t hurt. much.
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  • season 5 episode 9b - 04:09:2026, 07.58

    season 5 episode 9b - 04:09:2026, 07.58
    2026/09/04
    Do not adjust your radio. You are on the threshold of a dream, perhaps a nightmare. This week, history misbehaves, bureaucracy develops teeth, a dead Pope is dragged back into court, and one unfortunate man discovers that other people’s sins are not always easy to digest. Along the way, Sparks, Blondie, Paolo Nutini, Oingo Boingo and SOFI TUKKER help push the transmission from the ridiculous to the slightly unhinged. Ordinary things behave badly. Explanations arrive late. Common sense takes the evening off. Nothing here is real, nevertheless everything you hear is true. Probably.
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  • season 5 episode 8b - 28:08:2026, 20.55

    season 5 episode 8b - 28:08:2026, 20.55
    2026/08/28
    Looking for signs. Some are helpful. Some are warnings. Some arrive three knocks at a time. And some simply say “EXIT” without troubling to explain exactly what you’re expected to exit from. We begin in the woods with an unfinished warning, descend into the forgotten basement of an old asylum, encounter a doorway that leads “all the way out,” and meet two power-station workers faced with a red warning light nobody has ever seen before and a manual nobody has ever bothered to open. Elsewhere, Rick attempts to convince the increasingly superstitious Gogol that three mysterious knocks, a bird and a stopped clock don’t necessarily mean death is coming. A deceased gentleman develops strong opinions about the accuracy of his own paperwork. And Joan of Arc discovers that receiving instructions from Heaven is considerably easier than getting Heaven to accept responsibility for the consequences. Music this week comes from Sparks, Kate Bush, The Alan Parsons Project, Land of the Giants, The Who and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, along with our house band Slack Alice, who take us “All the Way Out.” Nothing here is real, nevertheless everything you hear is true. Probably.
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  • season 5 episode 7 - 19:08:2026, 02.56

    season 5 episode 7 - 19:08:2026, 02.56
    2026/08/20
    You are on the threshold of a dream, perhaps a nightmare. Behind you lies a world constructed largely from things people are quite certain about. The time. The date. Their name. Where they left the car. What their neighbour is doing. And exactly what they meant when they said, “Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing.” Certainty is comforting. It allows us to cross roads, board aeroplanes, get married, buy houses and eat things from the refrigerator whose labels have fallen off. Without it, civilisation would grind to a halt while everybody stood around asking whether anybody was absolutely sure. Fortunately, people usually are. Even when they shouldn’t be. You are about to enter a place where facts may prove temporary. Where conclusions can arrive before the evidence. Where the person who knows exactly what is happening may be the only person in the room who doesn’t. There are people who believe nothing without proof. There are others who require no proof whatsoever. Curiously, both groups are equally difficult at dinner parties. Tonight we may meet experts. Witnesses. People with plans. People with maps. And possibly one or two individuals who have been assured that everything is perfectly under control. They may even believe it. Listen carefully. Somewhere between what we know, what we think we know, and what somebody confidently told us in the pub, lies that small inconvenient territory known as reality.
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    1 時間 2 分
  • season 5 episode 6b - 12:08:2026, 22.45

    season 5 episode 6b - 12:08:2026, 22.45
    2026/08/14
    Do not adjust your radio. The sounds you can hear are part of the transmission. The footsteps. The distant machinery. The door that closes somewhere beyond the room. The voice that seems almost familiar. Listen carefully enough and you may notice something else. Something underneath them. You are on the threshold of a dream, perhaps a nightmare. Behind you lies the familiar world. A noisy place. Engines, televisions, telephones, arguments, music, alarms and the endless murmur of people reassuring one another that everything is still there. Ahead lies somewhere different. You are about to enter a place where noise may only be camouflage. Where the important things happen between one sound and the next. Where a pause may contain more information than a sentence. And where silence is not necessarily the absence of anything. We spend much of our lives trying to avoid it. We turn on radios in empty rooms. We speak when there is nothing to say. We fill every pause because something about an unanswered moment makes us uncomfortable. Perhaps we are right to be uncomfortable. Because silence leaves space. Space for thoughts we have been avoiding. For memories that have been waiting patiently. For questions we hoped nobody would ever ask. And perhaps for things that have learned not to make a sound. Tonight, there will be voices. There will be music. There will be noises whose origins may be difficult to establish. But listen between them. There are places even sound cannot reach. Small gaps in the transmission. Moments when everything stops. If one of those moments lasts a little longer than it should, resist the temptation to fill it. Don’t clear your throat. Don’t speak. And whatever you do, don’t ask if anyone is there. Because silence may not mean nobody answered. It may mean something is listening. Nothing here is entirely real. But everything may be true. Come on in and take a seat. It’s about to begin. Don’t worry, it won’t hurt much. And somewhere beneath all this noise, enjoy the silence.
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  • season 5 episode 5 - 07:08:2026, 13.17

    season 5 episode 5 - 07:08:2026, 13.17
    2026/08/07
    Do not adjust your radio. The fault is not in the transmission. What you can hear is the sound of something shifting behind the ordinary world. A door settling in an empty room. A footstep arriving before the foot. A familiar voice pausing for just long enough to become someone else. You are on the threshold of a dream, perhaps a nightmare. Behind you lies the reassuring architecture of everyday life. Streets that lead where they led yesterday. Clocks that move obediently forward. People who answer to the same names each morning. You have trusted these things because they have repeated themselves. But repetition is not proof. It is merely a habit reality has acquired. Tonight, that habit is about to be broken. You are about to enter a place where certainty has worn thin, where coincidence has begun making plans, and where the impossible no longer waits to be invited. Listen carefully. Not to the loud sounds. Not to the warnings. Listen for the quiet interruption. The missing word. The second knock when there was no first. The thought that enters your mind already knowing its way around. Do not be alarmed if something seems familiar. That may only mean it has happened before. Do not be reassured if nothing seems familiar. That may mean it has already begun. Somewhere beyond this signal, the world is continuing without you. Another version of this moment is unfolding with one small difference. Perhaps you made a different choice. Perhaps you were never there to make it. Perhaps the voice speaking to you now is not introducing the programme. Perhaps it is trying to remember how the programme ended. Nothing here is entirely real. But everything may be true. Come on in and take a seat. It’s about to begin. Don’t worry, it won’t hurt much.
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  • season 5 episode 4 - 01:08:2026, 00.20

    season 5 episode 4 - 01:08:2026, 00.20
    2026/07/31
    season 5 taster 3 Do not adjust your radio. The disturbance is not in the signal. It is a fracture in something you have always mistaken for reality. You are on the threshold of a dream, perhaps a nightmare. Behind you lies the world you know, governed by reason, time and the reassuring weight of ordinary things. Ahead lies somewhere else. A place where the laws of nature are merely suggestions, where space bends around a thought, and where the things you fear may be waiting for permission to become real. There is no door before you. Nevertheless, you have already crossed it. You are about to enter a world where every sound may open another passage, where familiar voices speak from places that have never existed, and where memories you do not recognise may still remember you. Do not look to me for guidance. I am only a voice. A shadow passing through the signal. Perhaps I have never existed at all. You have been here before, although something was careful to remove the memory. This time, it may not let you leave. Nothing here is entirely real. But everything may be true. Come on in and take a seat. It’s about to begin. Don’t worry, it won’t hurt much.
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    58 分