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Jungle Drums (radio Serial)
''Jungle Drums'' is a 1937 Australian radio serial by Maxwell Dunn. It was his first radio drama and was very popular, launching his career. The serial replaced ''As Ye Sow'' as the ABC's national serial. Dunn followed it with other serials, ''Light Sinister'', ''The Highest Command'' and ''Moon Magic (radio serial), Moon Magic''. The latter was also set in Africa. Premise "An English party which embarks on an expedition to darkest Africa, to discover the whereabouts of the long-loet father of the heroine. The chief characters are Edward Gordon, a noted African explorer; his friend, the honourable Terry Clare, Earl of Truscott and Inverness, wbo finances the expedition; Jill Trelawney, the heroine; and Dr. Quintin Vaughan, an authority on African native customs, who quickly reveal himself as the villain of the piece. As well as the sinister Dr. Vaughan, the forces arrayed against the party include a curious jungle plant which breathes and kills men, a race of giants, and a pigmy t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxwell Dunn
Maxwell Dunn (1916–65) was an Australian writer and producer of radio, films and prose. Dunn was born in Launceston, Tasmania. He did a variety of jobs, including as an insurance agent and began writing for radio. Dunn became production manager for the Macquarie network where he wrote and adapted numerous plays, serials and documentaries. In 1951, Dunn left Australia to become Programme Director of Film Television with the United Nations Organisation. He worked for ten years in New York and New Delhi then returned to Australia shortly before his death in 1965. Dunn's papers are at the University of Queensland. Select credits *''Jungle Drums (radio serial), Jungle Drums'' (1937)- radio serial *''Light Sinister'' (1938) - radio play *''Stateroom One'' (1939) - radio play *''There are Three Sisters'' (1939) - radio play *''Dishonour Be My Destiny'' (1940) - radio play about Thomas Morton *''The Rats of Tobruk (film), The Rats of Tobruk'' (1944) - narration *''When You Come Hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
As Ye Sow
''As Ye Sow'' is a 1937 Australian radio serial by Edmund Barclay Edmund Piers Barclay (2 May 1898 – 26 August 1961) was an English-Australian writer known for his work in radio drama. Radio historian Richard Lane called him "Australian radio's first great writer and, many would say, Australian radio's g .... It told the story of six generations of Australians in early colonial Australia. It was "regarded by many critics as the greatest contribution to Australian historical drama." Premise The story of an Australian family from 1788 to 1938, beginning with convict woman, Prudence Dent, and the Rum Corps officer, Gilbert Teal. Background Barclay had written an earlier saga about an Australian family for radio '' Love o' Land'' but that was a one off drama not a serial. Barclay later said, "I lived with the characters in ''As Ye Sow'' for six months prior to writing the story." He added, "In my heart, I felt that Janet in ''As Ye Sow'' deserved a happier ending, but I c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Highest Command
''The Highest Command'' is an Australian radio play by Maxwell Dunn Maxwell Dunn (1916–65) was an Australian writer and producer of radio, films and prose. Dunn was born in Launceston, Tasmania. He did a variety of jobs, including as an insurance agent and began writing for radio. Dunn became production manager .... It was set in China. The play was popular and later recorded again in Hobart in 1938 and performed again in 1940 and 1945. Premise "If you should visit China, and should go to a certain little town, perched, after the fashion of Chinese towns, high on a hillock, in the province of Ho Nan, you might be fortunate enough to meet an old man. He is the Marquis Kai Lung." References External linksThe Highest Commandat Ausstage {{DEFAULTSORT:Highest Command 1938 Australian radio dramas Works by Maxwell Dunn 1940 Australian radio dramas 1945 Australian radio dramas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moon Magic (radio Serial)
''Moon Magic'' is a 1939 Australian radio play by Maxwell Dunn Maxwell Dunn (1916–65) was an Australian writer and producer of radio, films and prose. Dunn was born in Launceston, Tasmania. He did a variety of jobs, including as an insurance agent and began writing for radio. Dunn became production manager .... It was set in Africa, like his earlier serial '' Jungle Drums''. The play appears to have been written by 1938 but was not broadcast until the following year. It was popular and was produced again in 1940. ''The Wireless Weekly'' radio critic said Dunn "has exploited the possibilities of this dark subject to the full—and very enjoyably... so carefully has the playwright increased the tension, with such expertness does one dramatic incident follow another, that “Moon Magic” is one of the most blood- curdling radio plays to be heard for some time." Premise "A drama of darkest Africa founded on that hideously cruel cult of diabolism, -Voodoo. In the Smoking room of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Evening Express
Saturday is the day of the week between Friday and Sunday. No later than the 2nd century, the Romans named Saturday ("Saturn's Day") for the god Saturn. His planet, Saturn, controlled the first hour of that day, according to Vettius Valens. The day's name was introduced into West Germanic languages and is recorded in the Low German languages such as Middle Low German , ''saterdach'', Middle Dutch (Modern Dutch ), and Old English , ''Sæterndæġ'' or . Origins Between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, the Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight-day Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day week. The astrological order of the days was explained by Vettius Valens and Dio Cassius (and Chaucer gave the same explanation in his ''Treatise on the Astrolabe''). According to these authors, it was a principle of astrology that the heavenly bodies presided, in succession, over the hours of the day. The association of the weekdays with the respective deities is thus indirect, the days are n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macleay Argus
''The Macleay Argus ''is an English-language newspaper published twice a week, on Tuesday and Friday, in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia. In 1952 it absorbed ''The Macleay Chronicle'', which had been in publication since 1878. History ''The Macleay Argus'' commenced publication in 1885. Its circulation included the Hastings, Manning, Camden Haven, Rollands Plains, Upper Macleay and the Northern Coast districts. ''The Macleay Chronicle'' was published in Kempsey from 1878-1952. In 1892 it circulated to 1500 people in the district. From 1910 it was published by Edward Patrick Noonan, whose son Harry also worked for the paper. After Edward's death, the ''Chronicle'' was run by his three daughters Ethel Margaret, Dorothy and Vivienne until 1952. The paper was then absorbed by the ''Macleay Argus''. Digitisation Both ''The Macleay Argus'' and ''The Macleay Chronicle'' have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Queenslander
''The Queenslander'' was the weekly summary and literary edition of the ''Brisbane Courier'', the leading journal in the colony (later state) of Queensland since the 1850s. ''The Queenslander'' was launched by the Brisbane Newspaper Company in 1866, and discontinued in 1939. History ''The Queenslander'' was first published on 3 February 1866 in Brisbane by Thomas Blacket Stephens. The last edition was printed on 22 February 1939. In a country the size of Australia, a daily newspaper of some prominence could only reach the bush and outlying districts if it also published a weekly edition. Yet ''The Queenslander'', under the managing editorship of Gresley Lukin—managing editor from November 1873 until December 1880—also came to find additional use as a literary magazine. Angus Mackay, later a politician, was its first editor. In September 1919, a series of aerial photographs of Brisbane and its surrounding suburbs were published under the title, ''Brisbane By Air''. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Australian Radio Dramas
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: The Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinate its leaders. * January 30 – The Moscow Trial initiated on January 23 is concluded. Thirteen of the defendants are Capital punishment, sentenced to death (including Georgy Pyatakov, Nikolay Muralov and Leonid Serebryakov), while the rest, including Karl Radek and Grigory Sokolnikov are sent to Gulag, labor camps and later murdered. They were i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930s Australian Radio Serials
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off; Marcus Didius Julianus the highest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
