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form y separately published work icon Mum Is the Word single work   radio play   detective   humour  
Alternative title: Mum Is the Word : Case from the Chronicles of Clipper and Brown
Issue Details: First known date: 1940... 1940 Mum Is the Word
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'The dumb detectives, Clipper and Brown, accept an assignment in Egypt, to guard a mummy during transportation from the Valley of the Kings to a foreign destination. Their employer, one Zapara, has heavily insured the mummy, and schemes to get it both ways. Clipper and Brown arrive hard, on a soft spot by aeroplane. Their first impressions of Egypt are obtained in a harem, which they are persuaded to leave only when the desert men return from a tribal skirmish. They meet Shirma, an eastern beauty who causes Clipper to reflect, and almost stray from the path of duty. Brown has perforce to guard Clipper as well as the mummy.'

Source: [Radio guide], Wireless Weekly, 1 June 1940, p.26.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on 2FC on Friday 7 June 1940, from 9:30pm.

    Producer: Russell Scott.


    Broadcast on 14 September 1943. Presented by the Melbourne Theatre Orchestra and Wireless Chorus.

    Producer: Russell Scott.

    Composer: Lionel Lawson.

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