Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made life-changing phone calls
Radio 4,Β·10 episodes
Episode 1
Dominic Arkwright meets John Gillatt, who was lost in the Malaysian jungle for five days.
Episode 2
Dominic Arkwright talks to counsellors at Childline about the dramatic calls they receive.
Adoption
Dominic Arkwright meets the man who took a call from the sister he didn't know existed.
Episode 4
Dominic Arkwright meets dancer Rose Metcalf who escaped from the sinking Costa Concordia.
Episode 5
Dominic Arkwright meets the mum who gave birth at home with a 999 operator on the line.
Concorde
Dominic Arkwright meets a woman who survived when Concorde crashed into her Paris hotel.
Dominic Arkwright meets a man who took a distress call from a ship called Titanic.
Answerphone Messages
Dominic Arkwright meets a man who's saved his answer phone messages for the last 20 years.
The Samaritans
Dominic Arkwright meets a man whose life was transformed by a call to the Samaritans.
Forensics
Dominic Arkwright talks to Professor Peter French about the science of forensic acoustics.
