On the line

Sept. 91 near Liege, three gangsters, three hostages: a woman and her two daughters. The gagsters claim for 1 million dollars. They will finally get them. Five days and nights of a very hard game. One year after, François director at belgian TV succeeded to get the tapes records of the phone conversations between the gangsters and the policeman in charge of the negociation. Extraordinary conversation, sometimes confidential, mixed both with violence and tenderness, between two men everythings would seen first to separate, a cop and a gangster. As a radio program, this sound edited tape has got in 91 the ' Prix Gilson', best information program from the French speaking radios from France, Canada, Switzerland and Belgium, and special mention from the jury at the ' Prix Italia'.