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Reconstruction of the Ern Malley hoax and its development. John Thompson compiled and narrated this documentary feature, including statements by and interviews with some of the main participants in the controversy: Geoffrey Dutton, Brian Elliott, George Farwell, Max Harris, James McAuley, Sidney Nolan, Sir Herbert Read, John Reed, Barrie Reid, Colin Simpson,Tess van Sommers, Harold Stewart, Professor J.I.M. Stewart, and Albert Tucker.

The feature was broadcast by ABC radio in 1959. The transcript was first published as an Appendix to Clement Semmler's For the Uncanny Man : Essays, Mainly Literary (F.W.Cheshire, 1963).