| Original name |
Puheliini |
| Kirjoittajat |
Pekka Lounela |
| Original language |
Finnish |
| Premiere year |
1976 |
| Theater |
Radioteatteri, YLE / Finnish Radio Theatre |
| Keywords |
Radio Play |
Synopsis
Characters: 6 male, 3 female
The Tellephone is a radio play in miniature, on the invention of the telephone and all the things the telephone has been used for in the last hundred years. Automatic answering services, holding systems, exchanges, wrong numbers, poor audibility, engaged lines, interrupted calls, telephone terrorism, gossip by phone, and many other aspects that fascinate and infuriate the user come into Lounela’s play. And in the middle of it all Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the phone, makes his first call to Thomas Watson who, unknown to Bell, is working on his own invention.
Translations
| Language |
English |
| Translation name |
The Tellephone |
| Translators |
Dympna Connolly |
| Copies available |
Finnish Broadcasting Company, http://www.yle.fi |
| Drama agency |
Finnish Broadcasting Company, http://www.yle.fi |