Don’t Hang Up
October 10th, 2007 by Russell DaviesIn celebration of Steve getting us up and running as a podcast I thought I’d post one of my favourite programmes from the hard-drive archive. It’s an episode of Don’t Hang Up - a programme constructed from a presenter (Alan Dein) ringing phoneboxes around the world and waiting for people to answer. The conversations are fascinating but I particularly love the textures of the sound; the accents and the bleeps, cracks and hisses of global telephony. Lovely stuff. Why did they only make three? (mp3)
December 5th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Russell, we made 9 in total over 4 years and stopped! I think we pushed tt as far as it could go aesthetically and quite frankly as 2 middle aged blokes with kids the promise of more 4 am calls in a lonely studio in BH didn’t appeal much any more.
Glad you liked it- it’s had a remarkable little life.
Cheers
December 5th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
hello Mark,
Thanks for saying hello. I can see how it would be hard to do more than 9. Do you think they’re all online somewhere? I’ll have to have another dig around.
cheers
January 5th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Brilliant stuff that.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Russell,
none online as yet although I think they are about to enshrine the award winning one in digital aspic-so to speak. We toy with a sequel every now and then- is it avatars, skype or….but the phonebox is such a beautiful, simple image. One day our fingers might do the dialling. One day…
Of course anyone can try it for themselves, you’ll find a couple of websites with 1000’s of numbers on, a lot of which don’t work!.
Cheers