The Phone Box by Javaad Alipoor

How does a boy learn when to run away, when to fight back and when to hide in a phone box?

An original short story written and performed by Javaad Alipoor, specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4.

It's a poetic monologue reflecting on those formative moments of childhood that stay with you, bright and ringing, into adulthood.

Javaad Alipoor is a writer, theatre maker and director who grew up in Bradford.

He is resident associate director at Sheffield theatres and an associate director of Bradford's Theatre in the Mill. He also writes poetry and prose. His essays and theory-fiction on global politics, philosophy and art have also been published.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2018.