Orson Welles called SORRY, WRONG NUMBER "the greatest single radio script ever written". It does not translate so well to film. But it IS really fun to examine with 72 years of perspective. How did the ways we communicate change when we brought telephones, formerly an element of commercial and industrial society, into our homes? What kinds of stories and performances were created when we chose to let other people's ghosts haunt our living spaces? Why don't we see Burt Lancaster's feet? Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/ Extra reading: - “Ghost in the Machine: On Technology and Perception in PERSONAL SHOPPER and Breath of the Wild” by Harry Mackin: https://unwinnable.com/2019/09/24/ghost-in-the-machine-119/ Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Prelude/The Foreword” by Franz Waxman from SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948).
