Radio Eye

Winner of this year's Prix Italia for radio documentary is an audacious feature from the BBC. It's based on the simple but cheeky idea of ringing up telephone boxes at random around the world and recording conversations with total strangers.

Alan Dein discovers that people do still use and value those archaic bits of street furniture which are slowly disappearing everywhere. A transsexual in Auckland talks frankly about being treated 'like a girl' in jail; a policeman in Florida describes his vision of night life, and an addicted Margate teenager says she 'hates Goths' (even while they are banging on the glass of the phone box) and admits to all kinds of crimes of violence just to get 'a hit'.

Occasionally lurid but moving story of people with little to hide.

by Alan Dein

Producer - Mark Burman
Sound - Robert Ketteridge

For copyright reasons we are unable to make Don't Hang Up available for download. However, listeners can go to the BBC Radio 4 : Don't Hang Up archive

Presenter

Brent Clough