Radio Plays - Telephones!
1998 Phone tag, by I.Horowitz
1997 Cold Call, by Collin Johnson
1997 Call from the dead, by Carey Harrison
1996 Speak after the Beep, by Michael Frayn
1995 Burn your phone
1993 Click, click, brrr, by Joe Turner
1992 Disconnected, by Anthony George
1992 Crossed Lines, by David Halliwell
c1980 The last phone-in, by Keith Waterhouse
c1980 Chocolate & Cigarettes, by Anthony Minghella
NOTES
COLD CALLING....2003
See Lynne Truss page. Play based in a call centre.
PHONE TAG....1998
Curious play where the main parts are taken by answering machines.
COLD CALL....1997
R4,22 Jul 97; excellent play set in an advertising agency call centre.
CALL FROM THE DEAD....1997
A macabre tale: a telephone call from the grave?
DISCONNECTED 1992
An unearthly tale.....an unusual happening on a train near Chelmsford
puts Peter's mobile phone at a premium. But as power in the batteries
drains away, the voices on the line become more ghostly. With John Nettles
as Peter, Mary Wimbush as Nan, Kathryn Hurlbutt as Grace, Susan Mann
as Nancy; also stars Edward Long, Richard Avery and Peter Meakin; directed
by Nigel Bryant.
Crossed Lines:....1992
An exciting thriller beginning with a stray telephone call....I
wonder how I'd react if my business was in trouble and I
received a proposition like this...stars Ian Hogg as Daker Adwin, Claire
Falconbridge as Sadia, Graham Padden as Jackman, Kathryn Hurlbutt as
Edie, David Vann as Aaron, Joyce Gibbs as Mrs. Dabbs, Simon Carter as
Mr. Dabbs, Terrl Molloy as Keel, Gillian Goodman as Yattar, and David
Halliwell as the prison officer. Directed at Pebble Mill by Philip
Martin.
THE LAST PHONE-IN....1980
The phone-in programme from hell.
CHOCOLATE & CIGARETTES....1980
Excellent play which begins with an extended
scene on an answering machine...
Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
All of the above known to exist in VRPCC collections
