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It's Good To Talk

4 Extra Debut. Alan Dein begins making a series of random telephone calls to chat to complete strangers in phone boxes. From 2003.

A phonebox rings in the middle of nowhere, anywhere.

Alan Dein begins a series of random conversations with complete strangers in phone boxes.

A moment shared, a life revealed, just don't hang up?!

He engages in conversation with a young man who fancies himself as a poet and a woman who has just been made redundant.

Producer: Mark Burman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2003.

15 minutes

On radio

Mon 9 Nov 202609:30

Broadcasts

  • Fri 14 Sep 200713:15
  • Mon 9 Nov 202609:30