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In this podcast episode, Bastian Pastewka presents two radio plays in the category he invented: women in lonely houses alone on the telephone. In A House with a Past by Rolf Biebricher from 1972, Patricia Hamilton waits for her husband George in her new country house. She is on the phone with her best friend when she realizes that she is not alone in the house. In Thunderstorm over Elmwood from 1936 by PT Wolgar, Jennifer finds a dead man in the garage. And in the middle of a thunderstorm, she can't reach her husband or the police. Both horror thrillers vary the popular motif of fateful isolation - the telephone as the only connection to the outside world. Thunderstorm over Elmwood was created in 1963 by SFB, now rbb, as the first stereo radio play in German broadcasting history. Image source: Boris Breuer