Hacker
September 27th, 2008 by Steve BowbrickMy ten year-old son’s latest reason for refusing to get out of bed before eight O’Clock on a school day is a brilliant twelve-part story by Malorie Blackman on BBC7. It’s a nicely told plucky-adolescent-saves-the-world thriller called Hacker and it’s got computers in it but not in an annoying way.
I enjoyed using the theft of £7M by hackers in the story to help me scale the US bank bail-out for the boy: “you know those hackers stole £7M? Well, George Bush wants to give the banks a huge amount of money too, but it’s not 7 million or 70 million or 700 million or even 7 billion or 70 billion but 700 billion dollars!”
Here’s episode one and you can hear the other eleven episodes here on BBC7’s excellent Big Toe Books page until 5 October. It’s well worth bookmarking this page if you have kids: there are always at least half-a-dozen stories to listen to here. Highlights at the moment include Fiddlesticks by Alan Fraser and The Lost Boys’ Appreciation Society by Alan Gibbons.
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