Don't Hang Up 2: Nightlines
Would you pick up a ringing payphone and share your life with a complete stranger? Alan Dein hopes so.
Best Documentary: Gold2007 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition2007 / Alan Dein / Mark Burman / BBC Radio 4, UK
Would you pick up a ringing payphone and share your life with a complete stranger? Alan Dein hopes so.
Dialing into the deep night, Dein encounters the lonely, the lost, the brave, and the strange -- from a security guard in the Florida Everglades to a Kiwi transsexual in pigtails and onto a vision of violent, teenage hell on a Margate seafront.
In this excerpt, the stories of those who answered Alan Dein's nighttime calls begin to converge in intriguing ways.
Don't Hang Up 2: Nightlines won the Best Documentary: Gold Award in the 2007 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. The story was produced with assistance from Anne Smith.
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Alan Dein is one of Britain's leading oral historians.
Mark Burman thought he was going to make movies until he heard a classic Charles Parker radio ballad which stopped him in his tracks.