Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,940 playable programmes from the BBC

Friday Drama

Phone

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

By Peter Jukes

Eliot is stuck in a rut. When Roy, his friend and local gangster, is taken ill, he hands Eliot his mobile phone. "Just wait for it to ring," he tells him. And so it begins - the phone thrusts Eliot into an underworld which is sometimes glamorous, often dangerous, always unexpected.

Cast:

Eliot . . . . . Freddy White
Kathleen . . . . . Jemima Rooper
Sparky . . . . . Jimmy Akingbola
Roy Peters . . . . . Richard Ridings
Iverson . . . . . Caroline Guthrie
Crimp . . . . . Paul Rider
Ze . . . . . Nabil Elouahabi
Rachel . . . . . Lizzy Watts
Baltazar . . . . . Matt Addis
Sarasi . . . . . Janice Acquah
Vince . . . . . Jonathan Tafler
Teenager . . . . . Benjamin Askew

Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. Show less

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More