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form y separately published work icon Madame XYZ single work   radio play   detective   humour  
Alternative title: Madame XYZ : Case 103 from the Chronicles of Clipper and Brown, the Dumbest Detectives Ever Devised
Issue Details: First known date: 1936... 1936 Madame XYZ
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'A big figure in the War Office has been so misguided as to enlist the aid of that genial but dumb duo, Clipper and Brown, to assist him in clearing up the mystery of a missing document, a document so tremendously important that on it may depend the peace (or the pieces) of Europe! The hollow-headed sleuths meet the charming female spy with the pronounced foreign accent and go from one breathless adventure to another in an effort to achieve greatness, only to find greatness thrust upon them—from a very unexpected quarter.'

Source: [Radio guide], Wireless Weekly, 27 December 1935, p.43.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on 2FC on Wednesday 1 January 1936, from 8pm. Presented by the ABC Revue Company.

    Producer: Reg. Hawthorne.


    Broadcast on 2FC on Friday 1 December 1939, from 9:45pm. Presented by the Theatre Orchestra and Wireless Chorus.

    Producer: Herbert Browne.

    Conductor: Elford Mack.


    Broadcast on Tuesday 31 August 1943. Presented by the Melbourne Theatre Orchestra and Wireless Chorus.

    Producer: Russell Scott.

    Conductor: Lionel Lawson.

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