This paper is part of a study that attempts to explore the functioning of radio plays’ dramaturgy through one of its most characteristic means of impact, the hypnotic effect, by analysing Tibor Hajas’s 1979 radio performance titled Touch. To gain a more complete understanding, the paper reviews the defining moments of the artist’s life, the ones which are relevant to the question, including his trial for subversion, the so-called inner-city gang trial, that resulted in a prison sentence. The appendix at the end of the paper contains the never-yet-published text of an interview created on the occasion of the 1979 premiere of the ‘unusual sound-performance,’ which was itself broadcast before Touch, on Radio Kossuth, on the 4^th of February 1979, produced by Endre T. Rózsa, reported by Miklós Győrffy.