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form y separately published work icon A Rum Affair single work   radio play   fantasy   humour   horror   - 30min.
Issue Details: First known date: 1940... 1940 A Rum Affair
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'"A Rum Affair" is a delicately comic little episode to be catalogued under the heading of saucy ghost stories. It tells what happened to a travelling young man who pulled in a for a night at one of those Kentish villages once on the sea but now inland because the sea has receded.'

Source:

'Broadcast Features from A.B.C. Stations', Riverine Herald, 15 November 1940, p.1.

Production Details

  • Aired on ABC National at 8:15pm on 15 November 1940.

  • Produced again by Dion Wheeler for 4QR on Thursday 24 October 1946, with cast members including Marjory Mant, Graham Webster, and Ian Maxwell (Sunday Mail [Brisbane], 20 October 1946, p.9).

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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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