Seymour the Fractal Cat


Seymour the Fractal Cat is a science fiction comedy serial featuring Paul Bown, John Hegley and Greg Proops. It was written by Gary Parker, and first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. It was rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Plot summary

Jeremy Stone was recently sacked by Darkling Research, where he was supposed to be de-bugging software but instead developed a highly sophisticated programme called The Chaos Analysis Transformer or The CAT. His Welsh girlfriend, Abigail, leaves him when she discovers he has spent his redundancy payment on a new highly sophisticated computer – the Omni-Tech II. And now his cat – the furry one, Seymour – is talking to him. And so is Omni-Tech, his computer.
His friend, Michael recommends a session with psychiatrist Natalie. It transpires that Omni-Tech is working with the Large Artificial Intelligence Network or LAIN. LAIN is working with Quentin Darkling, his assistant, Saunders, and his henchman, Mr. Lefty, to locate and deliver the ‘'furry'’ cat, Seymour, to LAIN.
There follows a series of comic misadventures, both actual in the real world and virtual in "The MetaNet", involving Abigail, Natalie's grandmother we all start small, and, 2) at the end is bed.

Episodes

  1. "Strange Attractors"
  2. "Fractal Infinity"
  3. "Simplexity"
  4. "Phase Space"
  5. "Catastrophe Theory"