AustLit

'"Golden Acres" is being maintained anonymously by Daniel Meadows, whilst it is actually owned by his drunken and dissolute brother, Rufus.

It is their children, Nicholas and Bella, who will fight each other and the vicious but beautiful murderess, Selina Dale, for possession of "The House of Gold."

This story takes place in two vastly different environments - the quiet of an English country yard and a hot explosive new land where gold is sought and desired, but brings disaster and death to many.'

Source: 'The House of Gold', Grace Gibson Productions: Retail Store.

'Radio serial following the lives of Pepper and his sister Peggy as they pass from their late teens into maturity, through their youthful adventures, their early romances and to the lives they eventually build for themselves and their families.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 151

'This startling, romantic, medical drama tells of Belinda Barry, a woman who is beautiful, soft, sweet and clinging to the men she meets but in reality is greedy, unscrupulous and completely evil.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 77.

'A romantic story of wealth, power, hate, fear and the terrifying vengeance sought by the women wronged by Jason Clay.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 45.

'Radio serial based on the novel by E.V. Timms. The gripping and emotionally dramatic story of three unusual women, their intrigues, their romances, their concealed hatreds and betrayals of each other, set against the turmoil and hazards of the epic days of early Queensland settlement.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 170.

'Inspirational radio drama about the Reverend Thomas Andrews whose parish is in the poorer part of the city. He lives with his sister and niece next to his church - the Church of the Good Samaritan. when Ray Benson, a man wrongly convicted of a crime is released from prison, he seeks to destroy Mr. Andrews for preaching what he perceives as lies. The story tells how the minister deals with Benson and how he helps him overcome his bitterness.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 89.

'True half-hour stories about world figures who have changed the course of history.'

Source: 'Advertising', The Canberra Times, 8 Sep. 1956, p. 5.

Adaptation of E.V. Timms's novel.

'Portia says that being a successful wife and mother is most important of all. She is capable as she is beautiful--is at once an outstanding lawyer and a warm-hearted and simple home-loving woman. She is engaged in a constant struggle to stay out of professional life in order to make a home for her husband and her son, Dickie.

Walter Manning, a writer of great ability, truly loves Portia and Dickie, yet he finds a great deal of difficulty in settling down because of his love for the pace and excitement of high adventure.

Leslie Palmer, glamorous and talented, is the publisher of an important magazine. She is determined that Walter Manning leave the small town where he and Portia have made their home and return to the city. Her reasons are not purely business.'

Source: 'FAMOUS SERIAL COMING TO 2BH', Barrier Miner, 30 Mar. 1954, p. 5.

'Fictionalised recreations of authentic criminal trials from the United States and Britain, presented from the viewpoint of the defence.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 77.

'The great private detective, Philip Marlowe, solves 'The Lady in the Lake' and 'The High Window.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 152.

'Stories of the strange link between men and money, to be unfolded in quarter hour episodes ... [they] will deal with men like Andrew Carnegie, King Gillette, and sir Thomas Lipton.'

Source: 'GUY CRITTENDEN'S 2WL RADIO ROUND-UP', South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus, 31 Dec. 1952, p. 2.

'Central character in this story, which is set in a small mining town, is the wife of the local doctor. A sophisticated city-bred woman, Gay, is utterly bored by the dull life she now leads, and has resolved to leave her husband.

A mine disaster forestalls her intention. She finds herself caught up with the other women of the town in an agony of suspense, praying for her husband to emerge safely from the mine shaft ... [as he] had gone below to lend assistance to the trapped miners.'

Source: 'Prize Play From 5AD', The Advertiser, 15 Jun. 1946, p. 7.

Chronicles the adventures of convict Ginny Lockey who escapes from Hobart Town and finds her way to the free settlement at Fremantle where she meets Simon Challinor and searches for her son.

'At a crowded New York intersection, Ernest Bowers (Ralph Barry) was knocked down. He appeared to be dead and his body was taken to the morgue. In his jacket pocket was a letter stating that he was cataleptic, but the jacket was stolen and sold by a dealer that same afternoon. His wife and doctor could not be reached by telephone, and no one at the morgue knew about his case, so an immediate post mortem was ordered. Had it not been for the persistence of a kindly woman it would have been carried out—and that would have been the end of Ernest Bowers.'

Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 9 February 1952, p.13.

'BERTRAM MATHEWS (Howard Craven) was a shoddy piece of theatrical material, unemployed and married to a virago. To keep things going in his San Francisco home he invites the handsome and brainless Longstreet (Malcolm Mealey) to become a boarder, and he himself takes a job as a floor-walker. Then he discovers Longstreet and his wife, Elizabeth (Madi Hedd), about to run away. He suggests that he should fake suicide so they could collect his life insurance money for him, while for their part of the bargain they could retain the house. But Elizabeth double-crosses him about the insurance money. In a quarrel he shoots Longstreet, and the circumstances are such that Elizabeth is arrested and charged with murder. From this point on, Bert, intent on regaining the limelight, attempts to prove that he was responsible for the murder and engineered the whole plot, but nobody believes him and he takes his "curtain call" anonymously.'

Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 26 January 1952, p.13.

'HENRY (Edward Finn) called at the chemist’s on the way home and bought some rat poison. His mother in-law (Madge Ryan) mistakes it for sugar and sprinkles it on the bread and butter she has cut for a midnight snack. It so happens that this mother-in law, who lives in the house, has ruined any chance of happiness between Henry and his wife, Mabel (Diana Davidson), and to let her eat the rat poison would have been an easy way out. But Henry loses his nerve and he wrests the bread and butter from her hand. However, when the mother-in law hears the story and realises that she nearly ate poison, she collapses and later dies. Henry, the coward who could dream of murder but could not nerve himself to commit it, is arrested and charged ... with murder. He is on the point of admitting to crime, but last-minute developments clear him.'

Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 19 January 1952, p.13.

'Gail Barrie and her friend Margaret Allen are kidnapped on their way to claim a million dollars from Gail's father.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 111

'A story of mystery, romance and murder set against a background of glamorous girls and fast-talking men who make up New York's biggest advertising agency. A radio adaptation of Octavus Roy Cohen's popular mystery novel.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 55.