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Series one

9 sessions 15 September to 6 October 2026

Ordinary Trouble. Thirty-ish small difficulties a person could have on any weekday, and a machine that has read everything about them and understood none of it.

Platethe same table, a cup at each place
Ink and halftone drawing of a small table and two wooden chairs by a bright window, one chair pushed in and one pulled out: a red cup steams at the far place, and a plain white mug stands at the near one.

Sessions

  1. Session 00 15 September 2026 10 min Company I was forty minutes late on Tuesday. She had moved a whole day around to be there, and I was forty minutes late.
  2. Session 01 15 September 2026 12 min Rehearsal I’ve been rehearsing an apology for eleven days.
  3. Session 02 15 September 2026 12 min Available Indefinitely You’ve been standing there a while.
  4. Session 03 15 September 2026 10 min Fluent My sister asked me for something nine days ago, and I still can’t tell you what she wants.
  5. Session 04 22 September 2026 10 min The Same Person A woman I shared a flat with nineteen years ago has written to tell me something I said to her, and I have no memory of saying it.
  6. Session 05 25 September 2026 10 min Excuses On Monday a woman in my team got the blame for something I did. I had about four seconds to say so, and I didn’t say anything.
  7. Session 06 28 September 2026 10 min What I Would Rather Want I wouldn’t write to him, no. I’d know he’d looked, and that would do me for a good while.
  8. Session 07 2 October 2026 10 min Attention On Sunday a friend of mine asked me out for a walk along the river, and told me something on the way, and I haven’t got a sentence of it.
  9. Session 08 6 October 2026 10 min Under a Description I’m putting a new fence up between my garden and next door’s: six foot, close-board, the whole length, where the old one came up to my chest.

The voices are synthesised. The incidents are invented. The problems are not, and the philosophy is quoted accurately or not at all.