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The Call

Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made life-changing phone calls

Radio 4,10 episodes

Episodes

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Series 3
Episode 1
Dominic Arkwright meets John Gillatt, who was lost in the Malaysian jungle for five days.
04 Feb 2013,15 mins
Series 3
Episode 2
Dominic Arkwright talks to counsellors at Childline about the dramatic calls they receive.
05 Feb 2013,15 mins
Series 3
Adoption
Dominic Arkwright meets the man who took a call from the sister he didn't know existed.
06 Feb 2013,15 mins
Series 3
Episode 4
Dominic Arkwright meets dancer Rose Metcalf who escaped from the sinking Costa Concordia.
07 Feb 2013,15 mins
Series 3
Episode 5
Dominic Arkwright meets the mum who gave birth at home with a 999 operator on the line.
08 Feb 2013,15 mins
Series 2
Concorde
Dominic Arkwright meets a woman who survived when Concorde crashed into her Paris hotel.
01 Feb 2011,15 mins
Series 2
Episode 2
Dominic Arkwright meets a man who took a distress call from a ship called Titanic.
08 Feb 2011,15 mins
Series 2
Answerphone Messages
Dominic Arkwright meets a man who's saved his answer phone messages for the last 20 years.
15 Feb 2011,15 mins
Series 2
The Samaritans
Dominic Arkwright meets a man whose life was transformed by a call to the Samaritans.
22 Feb 2011,15 mins
Series 2
Forensics
Dominic Arkwright talks to Professor Peter French about the science of forensic acoustics.
01 Mar 2011,15 mins