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1 y separately published work icon Interview with Dame Mary Gilmore on the Occasion of her 97th Birthday John Walker (interviewer), Sydney : 2GB , 1962 Z1023167 1962 single work interview Gilmore is being interviewed by John Walker of Radio Central on the occasion of her 97th birthday. She thanks the many people who sent her telegrams and other messages of congratulations, she acknowledges that many of them are from overseas, she reveals that owing to a lack of energy she is no longer writing or composing poetry and hopes she will not see another birthday.
1 form y separately published work icon The Man in Question Raymond Bowers , Sydney : 2GB , 1958 21660191 1958 single work radio play

'James Arnitt hits a cyclist while driving his foster-brither's car, and his foster-brother agrees to take the blame. There is a sinister motive behind the foster-brother's generosity and James is placed in a tight spot.'

Source: 'Commerical Radio Plays', ABC Weekly, 9 April 1958, p.14.
1 form y separately published work icon Half Light Richard Lane , Sydney : 2GB , 1950 19693319 1950 single work radio play

'Half Light is set in the New South Wales timber country, where logging townships have sprung up among forests of giant trees. As night falls, a great loneliness descends upon these centres, in the half-light.

'In one such town Frank Vickers is manager of a timber company. He is happily married, with his wife Nora and son Barry. Then into his life comes Joanna Fairweather, to whom he was engaged 12 years earlier.

'She is a strange woman, intensely lonely and seemingly grateful for the friendship given her by Frank and Nora. But gradually she begins to exert an insidious influence on the household—undermining the atmosphere of happy domesticity—until it becomes apparent that she is a bitter, fanatical woman, determined to take revenge for the happiness she feels she has missed in her life.

'One person, however, a tough woods man named Ted Michael, realises her true character. As Joanna’s vicious cunning increases, the action mounts to a tensely dramatic climax.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays of the Week', ABC Weekly, 18 March 1950, p.27.
1 1 form y separately published work icon The Australian Story Jack Andrew Davey , Sydney : 2GB , 1942 Z1923613 1942 single work radio play musical theatre revue/revusical Written and produced by Jack Davey, The Australia Story was broadcast over two nights as part of 2GB's Calling in the Stars programme. Opening with 'Waltzing Matilda,' it celebrates the growth of the Australian colony in music, song and drama. The show was organised on behalf of the Austerity Loan Appeal.

In its preview of the show, the Australian Women's Weekly records: 'The early pioneers, the governors, the industrialists and settlers and the part they played in the young Colony will be dramatically pictures, and there will be a special episode dealing with the life of Sir Henry Parkes' (12 December 1942, p.18).

Surprisingly, the second half of the programme broadcast on Thursday 10 December comprised a dramatization of 'The Jervis Bay Goes Down" (1941), a narrative poem by American writer Gene Fowler about the sinking of the British liner by a German battleship in 1940.
1 form y separately published work icon Lux Radio Theatre Australia : 2GB 2UW Radio 2UE Sydney Ltd , 1939-1956 7997676 1939 series - publisher radio play

Produced by Harry Dearth, this was an Australian version of the American radio anthology series Lux Radio Theatre. According to the National Film and Sound Archives' holdings record, 'Mostly the plays were adaptations of contemporary Broadway or West End plays and American or British films but occasionally were Australian written.'
1 form y separately published work icon Sacrifice Lynn Foster , Sydney : 2GB , 1938 11133903 1938 series - publisher radio play biography

A series of biographical radio plays based around the notion of 'sacrifice': the show focused on relatively recent people from around the world (including Captain Oates, Edith Cavell, Lawrence of Arabia, Marie Curie, Father Damien, and Cecil Rhodes), as well as Australians.

Further Reading

'New Series of Stirring Radio Dramas of Sacrifice', Australian Women's Weekly, 10 September 1938, p.26.
1 form y separately published work icon David and Dawn with George Edwards and the Sea Fairies Sydney : 2GB , 1937-1938 8610680 1937 series - publisher radio play children's fantasy

'[In] "David and Dawn with George Edwards and the Sea Fairies" we have a story that is absorbing and interesting from the very first chapter. It is especially appealing to children, in that it brings into being such characters as King Neptune, Queen Mother of Pearl, Constable Leather-jacket, Herbert the Herring, and hosts of amusing sea folk who participate in the thrilling adventures that befall David and Dawn during their holiday under the sea.'

Source:

'Splendid David and Dawn Serial', Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh, 28 July 1938, p.7.
1 form y separately published work icon My Dream and Yours Lynn Foster , 1937 Australia : 2GB , 1937-1938 11123026 1937 series - publisher radio play children's

Christopher and Wendy end each night listening to their mother's stories before bed. Each episode of this serial is a dream adventure in which they participate.
1 6 form y separately published work icon Dad and Dave from Snake Gully Maurice Francis , Lorna Bingham , 1937 Sydney : 2GB , 1937-1953 Z1768959 1937 series - publisher radio play humour
1 form y separately published work icon Boomerang W. L. Power , Sydney : 2GB , 1937 8467779 1937 single work radio play

For more information on this adaptation, see the following:

'Famous Novel Dramatised for Radio', Australian Women's Weekly, 21 August 1937, p.37.
1 form y separately published work icon David and Dawn with George Edwards under the Southern Cross Sydney : 2GB , 1936-1937 8610641 1936 series - publisher radio play children's fantasy

'Though primarily designed as entertainment for the children, those who are young enough to believe in fairies, will find delight in the adventures of 'The Prickly Pair,' 'The King of the the Blue Mountains,' 'The Bearded Dragon,' 'The Bunyip,' 'Matilda, the Witch,' 'The Magic Boomerang,' 'The Scrub Baby,' and 'The Flower Folk,' to mention just a few of the Australian fairy characters that David and Dawn, two adventurous Australian children, encounter during their rambles in the bush.'

Source:

'Fairy Tale Serial', Sunday Mail, 22 August 1937, p.26.
1 form y separately published work icon David and Dawn with George Edwards in Fairyland Sydney : 2GB , 1936 8610565 1936 series - publisher radio play children's

The first in a series of radio serials starring adventurous children David and Dawn, this one focuses on their adventures in Fairyland.
1 form y separately published work icon E.V. Timms' Dramas Sydney : 2GB , 1936 7587116 1936 series - publisher radio play

The name under which the BSA Players broadcast a weekly radio drama by E.V. Timms.
1 form y separately published work icon The Haunted Light Sydney : 2GB , 1934 7847906 1934 single work radio play mystery thriller

'The scene is laid in a lonely part of the Cornish coast. Several lightkeepers meet their death in a mysterious manner, and the place assumes a bad reputation. One of the best lightkeepers in the service is sent to the station, and he, being a cheerful soul, refuses to be frightened by peculiar happenings. Strange and mysterious incidents take place, but the new lightkeeper holds to his task and eventually succeeds in running a desperate criminal to earth.'

Source:

'Around the Studios', Sunday Mail, 3 June 1934, p.25.
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