Author: Christian Ulmcke
Genre: Radio play for children
Production: Deutschlandradio Kultur 2012
Recording date: September 2012
Music: Frieder Butzmann
Length: 52'30
Director: Götz Naleppa
Assistant Director: Karena Lütge
Sound and technology: Alexander Brennecke, Gunda Herke

Contributors:
The Boy: Lyonel Dutchman
Captain Booth and Dr Tropflicht: Martin Seifert
Captain Blackbeard and William the Butler: Udo Kroschwald
Dragon Griesemund, newsreader and CD salesman: Andreas Fröhlich
Lisa: Rosina Lamps
Father: Matthias Walter
Narrator: Stefan Kaminski

Content:
Whenever it's most exciting, the radio breaks down! You get interrupted in the middle of a sea battle and come out again in an elf city or in the graveyard. Dad has to fix the radio - but even he can't do anything about power cuts.
A ten-year-old boy sits in front of an old radio and listens to a radio play. It tells of a wild sea battle between two pirate captains and just as a ship's boy is about to escape with the treasure map in the lifeboat, the radio stops. The boy searches for the transmitter. When he finds it again, a completely different story is told.
On the back of a dragon, a wizard and his apprentice fly to an ancient elven city to decipher an ancient inscription at the bottom of a well. Then ravenous direwolves appear and circle the two. Once again the programme breaks off.
Now daddy has to help, this radio is just too old! When the damage is repaired, the boy hears a story about an old butler who digs up a mysterious book in a cemetery at midnight. Two children want to stop him, but just as the butler discovers them, there is a power cut and again we don't know how the story continues.