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form y separately published work icon The Georgia Blues Double Murder single work   radio play   crime  
Note: Probably Ron Ingleby, but not confirmed.
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 The Georgia Blues Double Murder
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'WHEN Larry Kent, the private investigator, was commissioned to track down the purchaser of one of the first jazz recordings ever cut, The Georgia Blues, he embarked on a train of events that included the murder of Peter Cummings, his friend and a famous “disc jockey” of popular records.

'Kent becomes more than ever in tense in his campaign of crime hating, for Peter was not only a good friend but a good fellow. Kent calls on his client, gets bludgeoned into unconsciousness, and comes to to find his client also murdered.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 19 August 1950, p.27.

Production Details

  • Produced by 2UE on Wednesday 23 August 1950, from 8:30pm.

    Cast: Ken Wayne (Larry Kent), with Dinah Shearing, Madi Hedd, John Cazabon, Leonard Bullen, Marjorie Holt, and Dorothea Dunstan.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: 2UE , 1950 .
      Series: form y separately published work icon I Hate Crime Larry Kent : I Hate Crime; Rola Show : Larry Kent Ron Ingleby , Sydney : Macquarie Network Radio 2UE Sydney Ltd , Z1750974 1949 series - publisher radio play detective

      'Larry Kent is a crime investigator. As a newspaperman in New York, he becomes interested in crime detection and sets up in business in Australia. He has a nose for danger and a habit of playing hunches. A light touch to offset the serious theme of the plays is his eye for a pretty figure, and a favourite occupation of, as he puts it, "Watching the blondes go by" (Australian Radio Series 1930s - 1970s, p.99)

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