AustLit

Radio play adaptation of Alec Coppel's play.

No Other Tiger was set in India, where a man looking to purchase precious gems becomes entangled in the hunt for a man-eating tiger.

Based on American writer George Bellak's play The Trouble-Makers, about the murder of a campus newspaper editor by his fellow students and the ensuing 'witch hunt'.

Many sources date Bellak's play to 1956, but it was first performed in London in 1952 (see, for example, The Times, 18 August 1952, p.8).

Based on Horler's novel, his second featuring the private detective H. Emp (nicknamed 'Rope'), but there is little information available on the plot.

'The play opens on the centre court at Wimbledon where Dmitri Rikhjovic, of Hungary, and Anthony Hargraves, of Australia, are fighting out the semi-final of the men’s singles. Rikhovic has a comfortable lead of two games and is just about to deliver what will probably be his decisive service in the third.

'The first ball is a fault. A murmur of surprise goes up from the crowd. Before Rikhjovic can serve a second ball, he collapses. A doctor is quickly on the scene, but it is too late—the tennis star is dead. The doctor, obviously disturbed, suggests that the police should be called, for it seems probable that Dmitri Rikhjovic has died of cyanide poisoning.

'This is the problem confronting the police: how could a man be poisoned while on a tennis court, with thousands of eyes focused on him?'

Source: ABC Weekly, 29 October 1955, p.20.

An adaptation of one of Josephine Tey's Inspector Alan Grant novels, about a young man on the run, trying to establish his innocence in the murder of a young woman.

A Scottish professor is drawn into a world of espionage.

Little is known about this title, including whether it (like many of Rienits's other scripts for Saturday Night Theatre) was based on another text.

Estridge's novel, on which this radio play is based, is concerned with a man, the sole survivor of a desert mission, who is proclaimed a hero by the public, but scratches away the fame to reveal an uglier truth.

Little is known about this work's plot.

Little is known about the plot of this radio drama, including whether it (like many of Rienits's other scripts for Saturday Night Theatre) was based on another text.

A radio play about Matthew Flinders.

A radio play based on the rebellion against Governor William Bligh.

A radio play based around George Barrington, pickpocket and convict.

Nothing is currently known of the plot of this radio play.

'A play by Bruce Stewart based on the legend of Mrs. Fraser a story they tell in Queensland'.

Source:

Radio Times, 17 January 1958, p.54.

'Richard Quayle, a pilot for an Australian airline, arrives in Melbourne to ask his girl-friend, Anna Matheson, to marry him. He finds her dead in the bedroom of a squalid little hotel...'

Source:

Radio Times, 16 February 1961, p.12.

Marshall Arnitt, a racing-car driver, is spending the weekend with his mother in the south of England, when his foster brother takes out his car and hits a cyclist on the Scottish border. Marshall agrees to take the blame for the accident, and James finds that their mother has been murdered, and Marshall has engineered the situation to make James look guilty.

'Australia, 1830. A brutal and cold-blooded murder of a coloured man by a young English officer forges a chain of violence and intrigue, and leads to a dramatic fight for justice.'

Source: Radio Times, 8 March 1962, p.22.