BBC Four – The Life and Death of a Mobile Phone

Thought you mobile fanatics out there might be interested in a programme going out on Monday 5th September on BBC Four at 9pm as part of their ‘Electric Revolution’ series. It’s called The Life and Death of a Mobile Phone. Programme link and blurb below. I have to declare an interest, it features a cameo from We Love Mobile’s own Ben Scott-Robinson!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n58ml

Synopsis

Through the life cycle of one mobile phone, this documentary investigates the million and one ways in which the mobile has made itself indispensable to modern life.

One in every two human beings has a mobile, and this inanimate lump of plastic and minerals is made privy to people’s innermost secrets – conversations with friends, lovers and family. It holds family photos, plays favourite music and yet, as an instrument of communication, it has its paradoxes. People are dumped by text, some pretend to be deep in a telephone conversation to avoid speaking to real people and others are affronted when their bellowed conversations on public transport are overheard.

Then, at the end of a strangely intimate relationship, it becomes one of the one billion phones discarded every year – reconditioned for re-use or smelted down for the precious metals it contains.

Sorry for those outside the UK, as you are unlikely to be able to access the programme right now. For those in the UK not able to view it tonight, I imagine it will be available on i-Player.