Jad Abumrad

And then you hear my grandfather's voice.

Well, as Stephen Grenfell has just told you, life's been quite exciting for us.

He was a stutterer.

We've had a lot more letters.

There were all these things that meant it should never have worked on radio.

Anyhow...

my grandfather is in the studio on the stage and my grandma i'm sorry to say leslie isn't here she was often somewhere dramatic as a nut in the studio somewhere exotic one time she was in a diving diving bell she was underwater at the bottom of a test tank one time she was in the tower of london are you there leslie in the tower yes i'm here

So your grandpa is on stage and your grandma, you're saying, is in a tower by phone?

No, she's in front of a microphone.

Now, this is back in the time when microphones were the size of small melons.

There'd be a microphone set up in the Tower of London.

Connected live?

Yeah.

My grandfather then comes on the air and sets up a series of telepathy tests that they're going to enact.

So there was a famous one called the book test and this is where a member of the audience would come up to the stage and there'd be a pile of books and they'd randomly pick up a book, randomly open to a page and point to a line.

Now... Completely random bit of text selected out of a stack of books.

After the text had been chosen and only then... I shall now call in the Tower of London.

They would connect to his grandma, Leslie.

And a gong would sound and...

He'd kind of very dramatically furrow his brow.