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form The Watch on the Headland single work radio play

Author:agent M. Barnard Eldershaw

Issue Details: First known date: 1940... 1940 The Watch on the Headland

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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

Described as 'a dramatic incident from the earliest white history of New South Wales.' (See Riverine Herald below.)

Notes

Contemporary newspapers reported that the play 'was placed second by the judges in the recent A.B.C. play competition.' (See 'Broadcast Features from ABC Stations', Riverine Herald, 15 November 1940, p.1.), after George Farwell's Portrait of a Gentleman' and ahead of George Landen Dann's Funerals for Field-mice~.

Production Details

First broadcast on ABC radio on 7 July 1940, as number eight in the series of ABC Competition Plays.
Re-broadcast on 15 November 1940, after listeners voted it second in the competition.

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Publisher: Australian Broadcasting Commission

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Series: form y ABC Competition Plays Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1940 8879521 1940 series - publisher radio play Abstract
The umbrella term under which all plays that took part in the ABC Play Competition for 1940 were broadcast. Plays were clearly marked as part of this series, and were numbered for broadcast, enabling listeners to vote on them. All radio plays submitted to the ABC between 1 January and 30 April 1940 were eligible, and listeners awarded marks to each play after they were produced and broadcast. The top three plays were eligible for cash bonuses, but the ABC paid the usual commission rates for all plays that it produced as part of the series. Seventeen plays were produced, although some sources suggest as many as 333 additional plays were received.
Source:
'A.B.C. Play Competition', Courier-Mail, 5 February 1940, p.14.
Number in series: 8

Appears in:

form y Australian Radio Plays Leslie Rees (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1946 Z498921 1946 anthology radio play Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1946
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1946
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pg. 137-151
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y On Stage! Twelve Short Modern Plays H. G. Fowler , Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 1956 Z515396 1956 anthology drama Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 1956
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1956
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y Eight One-Act Plays Edinburgh : Nelson , 1961 Z514586 1961 single work drama Edinburgh : Nelson , 1961
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1961
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y Theatregoer (Supplement) vol. 2 no. 4 February 1962 Z657296 1962 periodical issue 1962
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1962
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The Living Drama F. W. W. Rhodes , 1946 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 7 no. 4 1946; (p. 233-235)
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