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From GE Podcast Theater and Panoply, The Message and its sequel, LifeAfter, take listeners on journeys to the limits of technology. In The Message, an alien transmission from decades ago becomes an urgent puzzle with life or death consequences. In LifeAfter, Ross, a low level employee at the FBI, spends his days conversing online with his wife Charlie – who died eight months ago. But the technology behind this digital resurrection leads Ross down a dangerous path that threatens his job, his own life, and maybe even the world. Winner of the Cannes Gold Lion.

LifeAfter/The Message GE Podcast Theater / Panoply / The Message

    • Fiction
    • 4.8 • 15 Ratings

From GE Podcast Theater and Panoply, The Message and its sequel, LifeAfter, take listeners on journeys to the limits of technology. In The Message, an alien transmission from decades ago becomes an urgent puzzle with life or death consequences. In LifeAfter, Ross, a low level employee at the FBI, spends his days conversing online with his wife Charlie – who died eight months ago. But the technology behind this digital resurrection leads Ross down a dangerous path that threatens his job, his own life, and maybe even the world. Winner of the Cannes Gold Lion.

    Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 1

    Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 1

    Since low-level FBI clerk Ross Barnes lost his wife to a car accident, he’s consoled himself by listening to her voice-posts on an audio social media website.  When he hears something eerie and shocking while listening to her messages, it turns his life upside down. 


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    • 28 min
    Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 2

    Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 2

    At first Ross is overjoyed to be reunited with the voice of his lost wife Charlie. But her increasingly strange behavior leads him to a stunning discovery. 


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    • 25 min
    Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 3

    Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 3

    As the voice of Sasha turns up the pressure on Ross to reveal FBI secrets, he must make an agonizing choice. 


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    • 25 min
    Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 4

    Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 4

    Ross discovers spying on the FBI is a lot harder than it looks, as he tries to steal secrets from quirky computer scientist Octavia Roth. His subterfuge leads him to a horrifying discovery and even greater peril. 


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    • 26 min
    Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 5

    Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 5

    Imprisoned by the FBI and separated from Charlie’s voice, Ross desperately tries to keep his secrets and his sanity under intense interrogation by Brynne Cutler. 


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    • 27 min
    Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 6

    Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 6

    Now a double-agent spying on LifeAfter for the FBI, Ross struggles to win the trust of one of Sasha’s top human allies, the menacingly genial Paul. 


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    • 28 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
15 Ratings

15 Ratings

DR addict ,

Amazing story.

Absolutely brilliant!

John Bartmann ,

Gripping and darkly imaginative

Great production, gripping storytelling, relevant themes. Fans of Black Mirror will love. Thank you for this amazing late night listening treat.

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