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A tape has appeared on a desk in the Radio 4 office. No-one is sure how it got there. All that was written on it were five words: 'A warning from the future'. Some of the tape is damaged, but what remains is played out because the budget won’t stretch to repairing it. Put together in haste by a ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ producer decades from now and narrated by an artificially intelligent Michael Buerk, Pillar of Salt looks back over the shoulder of the intervening years and shines a light on why and how everything crumbled into dust. From the makers of the Moral Maze and The Skewer, this is the story of our time viewed through a cracked retrospectoscope. Featuring a host of recognisable voices, it will examine society’s ethical and moral conundrums via bogus talking heads, fake archive footage, and made-up news broadcasts, as we chart everything that happened between now and then. Narrator: AI Michael Buerk Writers: Jon Holmes, Beth Granville and Gareth Ceredig Performers: Jake Yapp, Lu Corfield and Samuel James Sound design: Tony Churnside Production co-ordinator: Pete Liggins Producers: Dan Tierney and Jon Holmes Executive producer: Helen Grady