‘The Hum’, a low sound heard by a select few people, is an unexplained phenomenon that has been reported in various locations since the Seventies and formed the basis for writer Jordan Tannahill’s 2021 novel The Listeners. Now the BBC has adated the book into a four-part miniseries starring Rebecca Hall, relocating it from small-town America to middle England, where faith and conspiracy are a different kettle of fish.
Claire Kutty (Hall) is a secondary school teacher driven to the edge of a nervous breakdown by a strange, low rumbling noise that seemingly only she can hear. Insomnia and nosebleeds plague her.
