Stone Tape
"The Stone Tape" aired on 25 December 1972 on BBC2 to an audience of 2.6 million. The "Evening Standard" praised the play, describing it as "one of the best plays of the genre ever written. Its virtues aren't just the main spine of the story, but the way the characters shift, as in real life, the bitter comic conflict between pure and impure science". Viewers were similarly impressed: a panel questioned for an audience report praised "The Stone Tape" as "thoroughly entertaining" and "both gripping and spine-chilling".