The Talk Place

Today I picked up the buzzing handset, said “Global Recordings”, identified myself and heard a woman's voice, not known to me, but it had a familiar accent. It reminded me of the voice of a dear friend of mine who lives in Edinburgh. Understandable and very lilting, my caller identified herself as being from that part of Scotland.

Then she asked me for a bible-based recording of a language for outer MONGOLIA.

“Wow! Would you wait while I look up my list of Asian recordings?”.
“Go ahead” was the dulcet, Robbie Burns – like reply. I found MONGOLIA in my language list and started to read out the names of the recordings made for that far country .

“We have EVENKI, and KALMYK. We also have KAZAK. Then we have MANDARIN. How you going so far? Are any of these sounding as if they are suitable?”

There was a considered pause on the phone.

“Shall I go on?”

“Yes please”. “Well the list goes on with MONGOLIAN, then MONGOLIAN:Elute and finishes at UYGHUR.”

“Oh, I think that MONGOLIAN is the one I want. What sort of programmes do you have?”, she queried.

“We have an older audio recording called “Words of Life” and we have a new recording of our programme called the “Good News”, recorded to a script that goes with a visual of the same name.
This is a visual aid that has forty pictures. These pictures tell of the life of Jesus Christ in the first twenty coloured drawings. The way Christians should live is the theme of the last twenty drawings.”

“Lovely!”, she exclaimed. “I want them as a birthday present for my husband. He plans to go to Mongolia and he has started learning the language.”

So I asked for her contact details and discovered that her married surname was Dutch. She volunteered that she had met her husband in PNG.

We both agreed that we like living in a world that has become a global village.