Hello Caller by Jonathan Holloway

In the last two years, BT has decommissioned and removed at least 20,000 phone boxes.

But what if these boxes have always been able to remember all of the conversations that have been routed through them?

What if the wires hold memories suspended in their copper strands?

What if, faced with extinction, these voices breach, at least for a short time, the barrier between temporal reality and the pulses coursing through the cables?

Built from a series of intercut ‘trapped’ phone calls, this is a ramshackle, effervescent collection of tales.

Via the receiver and from within the wires we hear secrets, confessions, fears and declarations of love from voices now lost.

Jonathan Holloway's ghost story relies on physics.

All roles played by:

Annette Badland
Luke MacGregor
Sean Murray
David Reakes
Alex Tregear

Based on an idea by Tim Dee.

Director: Alison Crawford

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2019.