The Deca Tapes - 'The Cleaner'

The Deca Tapes - 'The Cleaner'

Author: Elena Fernández Collins | Hug House Productions April 14, 2021 Duration: 40:16

What’s left of you if all you have is your purpose in a job? Is there enough to even have a personality? Experience what happens when ten people only have their duties in their workplace and nothing else, not even memory, on The Deca Tapes.

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This episode of Radio Drama Revival was recorded in the unceded territory of the Kalapuya people, the Clatskanie Indian Tribe, the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, and the Atfalati tribe. Colonizers named this place Beaverton, Oregon.

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