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• 2024

• Drama

Summary

English teacher Claire's life is changed when she starts to hear a low constant humming sound that no one else around her can hear. Despite speaking to multiple doctors, no obvious source or medical cause can be found but when she discovers one of her students can also hear the hum, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Drama, starring Rebecca Hall

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David Brown

This unsettling drama focuses on what seems initially like the most innocuous of matters: a dull, low-frequency hum. The problem is that the sound can only be heard by secondary school teacher Claire (Rebecca Hall), whose life is about to be upended.

Thanks to its unwanted presence, Claire finds herself deprived of both sleep and maybe even reason. And as her nose bleeds apparently without cause and the world turns migraine grey, we too start to feel haunted by this persistent throb, the source of which cannot be found.

This being a four-part adaptation of a novel by Jordan Tannahill, there’s obviously a way to go before any explanation is offered. But as Claire begins to reach for nonsensical notions about 5G phone masts, the sense grows that she’ll eventually be siloed away from husband Paul (Prasanna Puwanarajah), whose reality is suddenly markedly different from hers. Might the hum be a metaphor for our worrying conspiracy theory culture?

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rolenameClaireRebecca HallKyleOllie WestPaulPrasanna PuwanarajahAshleyMia ThariaSiobhanNiamh McCannJoGayle RankinOmarAmr WakedTeresaLucy SheenEmilyKaren HenthornDamianSamuel Edward-Cook

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