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Issue Details: First known date: 1951... 1951 Kind Killers
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'THIS is a dramatisation of an event in Australian history. In 1797 the "Sydney Cove" was wrecked in Bass Strait. A party under the leadership of Mr. Hugh Thompson set off for help, but the nearest colony was Port Jackson, some 400 miles away through rough scrub country that had never before been traversed by white man. John Warwick opens his play when the party is only 90 miles from their destination. After two months of grinding marching, the party has shrunk from 18 to seven. Capturing the atmosphere of tension and almost hopelessness, John Warwick has constructed a gripping play that holds unwavering interest to the end.'

Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 14 April 1951, p.13.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on 2UE on 17 April 1951, from 8:30pm.

    Cast: Walter Sullivan, Alan White, Leonard Bullen, Guy Doleman, Syd Chambers, and John Hansberry.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: 2UE , 1951 .
      Extent: 30min.p.
      Series: form y separately published work icon Actor's Choice Australia : 2UE , 1950- 19335225 1950 series - publisher radio play

      Initiated by 2UE in August 1950, Actor's Choice was a series of radio plays by local writers, each chosen as a starring vehicle by a leading Sydney radio actor, and produced in 2UE's Sydney studios. One play was broadcast each week from the week of 21 August 1950.

      The series invited scripts from listeners as well as soliciting scripts from well-known local writers. Authors were paid £15 per script, and for the 1950-1951 production year, the studio also ran a competition for the four best plays, with prizes of £100, £50, £25, and £10. The four winning plays were rebroadcast as the final four plays of the year.

      Actor's Choice ran to a second series, which may have been less popular than the first: it appears to have received less coverage in industry magazines (such as ABC Weekly) and newspapers, and information is scarcer. Details on series two on AustLit are currently incomplete.

      Sources include 'New Programmes Mark Start of Major Radio War', Sun, 22 August 1950, p.29.

             Number in series: 1.35
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