{
  "title": "DUNWORTHY 13",
  "category": "[RADIO-SCRIPT]",
  "article": "[BBC title card for “Dunworthy 13”] “An operator on night duty at a lonely exchange gets a call\nfrom a ghost who keeps asking the time and tells him how he killed his brother.”\n[BBC title card for “Dunworthy 1313”] “…adapted from his television version, based on radio\nplay ‘Dunworthy 13’…”\n“…a night telephone operator who keeps getting calls from a man wanting to know the time who\nsays how he murdered his brother one Christmas Eve and is waiting for him to return. At\nmidnight his voice ends in a choke. The operator tries to convince the police he is sober—they find\nthe caller’s number was a dead line—that of a manor which no longer existed.”",
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  "extant_recordings": "",
  "chronology": "(REGIONAL PROGRAMME, LONDON—BBC)\n[Saturday—7:15-8:10 PM]\nDecember 25, 1937\n“The Shirt” / “Dunworthy 13”\n[“…a miniature thriller by John Pudney…”]\n[BBC TITLE CARD: “…An operator on night duty at a lonely exchange gets\na call from a ghost who keeps asking the time and tells him how he killed\nhis brother…”]\nSCRIPT: John Pudney.\nPERSONNEL: John Cheatle (producer).\n(HOME SERVICE, LONDON—BBC)\n[Saturday—4:35-5:00 PM]\nDecember 29, 1951\n“Dunworthy 1313”\n[BBC TITLE CARD: “…a night telephone operator who keeps getting calls\nfrom a man wanting to know the time who says…he murdered his\nbrother one Christmas Eve and is waiting for him to return. At midnight\nhis voice ends in a choke. The operator tries to convince the police he is\nsober—they find the caller’s number was a dead line—that of a manor\nwhich no longer existed...”]\nSCRIPT: John Pudney (“…adapted from his television version, based on radio\nplay ‘Dunworthy 13’…”).\nPERSONNEL: Norman Edwards (producer).",
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}