from a ghost who keeps asking the time and tells him how he killed his brother.”
play ‘Dunworthy 13’…”
“…a night telephone operator who keeps getting calls from a man wanting to know the time who
says how he murdered his brother one Christmas Eve and is waiting for him to return. At
midnight his voice ends in a choke. The operator tries to convince the police he is sober—they find
the caller’s number was a dead line—that of a manor which no longer existed.”
December 25, 1937“The Shirt” / “Dunworthy 13”
[
“…An operator on night duty at a lonely exchange gets
a call from a ghost who keeps asking the time and tells him how he killed
his brother…”]
John Pudney.
John Cheatle (producer).
December 29, 1951“Dunworthy 1313”
[
“…a night telephone operator who keeps getting calls
from a man wanting to know the time who says…he murdered his
brother one Christmas Eve and is waiting for him to return. At midnight
his voice ends in a choke. The operator tries to convince the police he is
sober—they find the caller’s number was a dead line—that of a manor
which no longer existed...”]
John Pudney (“…adapted from his television version, based on radio
play ‘Dunworthy 13’…”).
Norman Edwards (producer).