For a national competition called Switchboard Operator Of The Year, local radio DJ Gordon Astley, then doing a mid-morning show for BBC Radio WM (West Midlands), rang up unsuspecting switchboard operators at various nominated companies to see how well they could put up with problem callers.
In this call Gordon rings up a chemical company and tries to make an order to buy heavy water and plutonium
From 1991. Audio only.
Duration : 0:6:59
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