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The Knowledge (2018)
Short | Short, Comedy

The Knowledge (2018)

Short | Short, Comedy

The Knowledge appears to be a traditional TV game-show, perhaps from the 1980s. Its highlight though, is a race across London between a traditional black cab, and a smart-phone equipped uber cab. The enthusiastic host, Robert O'Reilly, ...See moreThe Knowledge appears to be a traditional TV game-show, perhaps from the 1980s. Its highlight though, is a race across London between a traditional black cab, and a smart-phone equipped uber cab. The enthusiastic host, Robert O'Reilly, describes this as 'an epic, existential battle; a battle for survival and for the future of mankind...' The work's familiar game-show conventions and unchallenging narrative and pace urge us to watch it as pulp TV, and to side with the 'Hackney Carriage Team', but the show is curiously hollow, with neither theme music nor applause. In the setting of The Knowledge Ian Wolter emphasises the strangely unconcerning, popular belief that rapidly advancing technologies will sweep aside the Knowledge and both cab and uber drivers as well as any number of other jobs. This work also probes our sentimental desire to preserve ways of doing things through wanting others not to change, or to revert to how they used to buy a book or hail a cab. But being unwilling to change ourselves: enjoying progress, yet yearning for it not to change anything. Written by Ian Wolter See less

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8 cast members

Name	Known for
Ross D'Souza Ross Ross See fewer	Ren (2016)
Jeannie Dickinson Stagehand Stagehand See fewer	Latham (2020)
Pete Gunnerson Pete Pete See fewer	The Knowledge (2018)
Robert Jezek Robert O'Reilly Robert O'Reilly See fewer	Event Horizon (1997)
Andrew Lawden Andrew Andrew See fewer	Pennyworth (2019)
Kate Madison Captain Kate Captain Kate See fewer	Born of Hope (2009)
Mike Oldfield Captain Mike Captain Mike See fewer	The Knowledge (2018)
Neil Oldfield Neil Neil See fewer	The Knowledge (2018)