Episode 3: Cut the Line
Trapped in a self-aware phone box, in the middle of nowhere, during a once-in-a-century snowstorm, was not how this phone technician was really hoping to spend her Christmas Eve.
As featured on BBC Radio Scotland
Andrew is a Scottish writer and Goldsmiths MA Script Writing graduate who now works in factual and scripted television. He is currently working as a script coordinator on the BBC’s long-running Scottish soap “River City”. In his own writing, he’s drawn to a blend of the comic, the mythic and the strange. He enjoys anything a bit fantastical and whimsical with some magic, hope and a few unusual underdog characters thrown in.
“I wanted this episode to be a bit weird, existing sort of on the margins of reality – partly futuristic, partly defunct between an ordinary person and something slightly less ordinary. I love this vaguely sci-fi, vaguely magic vibe and I was also really drawn to the rural phone box setting. It’s this iconic image that’s now outdated and fading away and I think that makes it a cool location for touching upon ideas of finality, of isolation and also of identity. I think this adds some nice bittersweet poignancy while also still being a wacky wee story about an engineer and a sentient phone box. I hope you enjoy!”
CREDITS
Written by Andrew Jameson
andrewjameson88@gmail.com
Directed by Bruce Bigg
Produced by Bruce Bigg and Ano Okera
Assistant producer: Stephane Ugeux
Rebecca Farrell-Hare as Cass
Marieke Bigg as the Operator
Editing and sound design by Thea Rickard
Theme music composed by FIGI.
A special thanks to Philip Palmer and Richard Shanon, John Pickard and Lisa Hack for their support.