大象传媒

Contestants from across the world gather at the International Morse Code championships in Tunisia. For a week they'll face each other off tapping at tiny morse machines so fast that it sounds almost like a sung language.

The Belarusians are the team to beat. The Morse world record holder Andrei Bindasov is a Belarussian software engineer now living in America.

Morse is a nearly 200 year old language. Its words are composed of just dots, dashes and spaces, transmitted in electrical pulses of sound or light. There are many variations in Japanese, Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Chinese, Ukrainian and other alphabets. In the age of cell phones and instant messaging, Morse still has its place.

A Storyscape production for 大象传媒 Radio 4