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The Telephone
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Michael Williams stars as 1940s comic Robb Wilton, had he been around in 1988. The eternal pessimist muses about telephony.
Robb Wilton (1881-1957) was one of the most popular music hall and radio comics of the 1930s and 1940s.
Famed as an all-round pessimist - what would he have made of 1980s Britain - he muses about telephony.
Michael Williams stars as Robb Wilton - making as little sense out of life as he did 40 years before...
Written by Allen Saddler.
Producer: Brian Miller
First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in April 1988.
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