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The Shark Fishers
''The Shark Fishers'' is a 1955 Australian radio play by Colin Thiele. It aired on the ABC in 1955 under the direction of Leslie Rees and starring Denys Burrows. It was very popular and was repeated it 1955, then recorded again in 1958 and 1962. It is probably Thiele's best known radio play. Unlike Thiele's previous well known radio plays ''Burke and Wills'' and ''The Edge of Ice'' it was written in prose Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural flow of speech, uses a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or follows the conventions of formal academic writing. It differs from most traditional poetry, where the f ... not verse. Plot According to ''ABC Weekly'' "Alex Hastings has given up the shark-fishing life because his young wife, Doris, who is about to have a baby, fears the sea. But when the news comes of the presence of schools of edible shark, Alec is drawn back to the family boat. Also in the rush is Ike, an embittered old fisher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Thiele
Colin Milton Thiele AC (; 16 November 1920 – 4 September 2006) was an Australian author and educator. He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novels '' Storm Boy'', '' Blue Fin'', the '' Sun on the Stubble'' series, and ''February Dragon''. As Vice Principal and Principal of Wattle Park Teachers College and Principal of Murray Park CAE for much of the 1960s and 70s he had a significant impact on teacher education in South Australia. Biography Thiele was born in Eudunda in South Australia to a Barossa German family. The young Colin only spoke German until he went to school at Julia Creek. He was educated at several country schools including the Eudunda Higher Primary School, and Kapunda High School before studying at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1941. He later taught in high schools and colleges. He became principal of Wattle Park Teachers College in 1965, principal of Murray Park CAE in 1973, and director of the Wattle Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Rees (writer)
George Leslie Clarke Rees (28 December 1905 – 17 August 2000) was an Australian writer for children who was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. Career He attended Perth Modern School and then the University of Western Australia, where he edited the student magazine, ''Black Swan''. He then worked for The West Australian as a journalist before travelling to London to study at University College on a scholarship. It was while there that he married fellow Western Australian, Coralie Clarke, who had been a sub-editor during his time on the ''Black Swan''. Rees returned to Australia in 1936 to become the Australian Broadcasting Commission's first federal drama editor in Sydney. He was also President of PEN (Sydney) for a number of years. As a writer, Rees is best known as a prolific author of children's books as well as written travel books, plays and an autobiography. He wrote the first Australian-written drama to air on Australian television, '' The Sub-Editor's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Burrows
Denys Burrows (d 1975) was an Australian actor and writer of books, radio and television. He is best known for his work in children's writing. Burrows created the series ''Catch Kandy'' with his wife Romie Hill. He died in 1975. Writing credits Screenwriting *'' Turning Point'' (1960) *'' Wambidgee'' (1962) (also voices) *'' Skippy'' (1968) *''Lucullus'' (1969) *''Catch Kandy'' (1973) Books *''Point Forlorn'' (1963) *''The Clipper Ship'' (1965) *''Stagecoach West'' (1965) *''Living in Australia'' (1967) Acting Television *'' Consider Your Verdict'' (1962) *'' Wambidgee'' (1962) as Voice actor * '' Tribunal'' (1963–64) * '' The Stranger'' 1964-65) as Chief Police Inspector *''Homicide'' (1973) - "Seven Winds" Radio *''The Wideaway Bunyip'' (1947) * ''The Ridge and the River'' (1953) as Mammawa * '' The Shark Fishers'' (1955) References External linksDenys Burrowsat IMDB IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information relat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beverley Times
''The Beverley Times'' is a defunct English language newspaper that was published weekly in the Wheatbelt town of Beverley, Western Australia, between 1905 and 1977. History ''The Beverley Times'' first circulated on 22 July 1905 and was published by the manager Henry Courtney at The Beverley Times Newspaper and General Printing Office on Vincent Street, Beverley, for the proprietor Chas Dawson, Newcastle. Initially the newspaper shared its office space with the local Catholic Church who ran services in the front of the building, however in 1908 the building was sold to Athol Thomas who opened a news agency and continued to print ''The Beverley Times'' in the rear of the building. The newspaper's creation was both a business venture and an effort to support the interests of the district of Beverley and provide residents with a forum for personal expression and discussion. News reported in ''The Beverley Times'' focused on the district of Beverley and included articles on ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burke And Wills (radio Play)
''Buke and Wills'' is a 1949 Australian radio play by Colin Thiele about the Burke and Wills expedition. The play was first performed at the Adelaide Drama Festival 1949. This production was broadcast from a studio in Hindmarsh Square to the nation. According to one papre "at the conclusion of the play... Mr. Thiele was accorded an enthusiastic ovation". It was a verse drama. According to Leslie Rees, the play "strongly influenced by ''The Fire on the Snow'', uses the survivor King as a narrator speaking remarkably fine verse, while the characters address one another in prose." The play was published in several collections of writings, including ''The Golden Lighting'' (1951), ''Colin Thiele, Selected Verse'' (Rigby, Adelaide, 1970) and ''On The Air: Five Radio and Television Plays'' (Angus & Robertson, 1959). The ABC produced the play again in 1951 and 1955. Premise According to ''ABC Weekly'' the play "retells the tragic story of the first explorers to cross Australia from s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Edge Of Ice
''The Edge of Ice'' is a 1951 Australian radio play by Colin Thiele Colin Milton Thiele AC (; 16 November 1920 – 4 September 2006) was an Australian author and educator. He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novels '' Storm Boy'', '' Blue Fin'', the '' Sun on the Stubble'' ... told the story of a handful of castaways in a boat in Antarctica. It won first prize for best radio drama held by the ABC and the Federation of Commercial Stations in 1951 for Australia's Jubilee (Thiele also won Best Feature for ''The Golden Tide'' about wheat). Leslie Rees later wrote "Of the Jubilee winners the future holds most for Colin Thiele." Premise According to ''ABC Weekly'' the play was about "a group of men who, together with the captain’s wife and little son, are the only survivors from a shipwreck. The party drift in an open boat on the Southern Ocean, and when at their last gasp reach a barren island, where they live on seal meat. The play’s s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prose
Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural flow of speech, uses a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or follows the conventions of formal academic writing. It differs from most traditional poetry, where the form consists of verse (writing in lines) based on rhythmic metre or rhyme. The word "prose" first appears in English in the 14th century. It is derived from the Old French ''prose'', which in turn originates in the Latin expression ''prosa oratio'' (literally, straightforward or direct speech). Works of philosophy, history, economics, etc., journalism, and most fiction (an exception is the verse novel), are examples of works written in prose. Developments in twentieth century literature, including free verse, concrete poetry, and prose poetry, have led to the idea of poetry and prose as two ends on a spectrum rather than firmly distinct from each other. The British poet T. S. Eliot noted, whereas "the distinction between verse a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Lincoln Times
The ''Port Lincoln Times'' is a newspaper published weekly in Port Lincoln, South Australia. It was first printed in August 1927, and has been published continuously ever since. It was later sold to Rural Press, previously owned by Fairfax Media, but now an Australian media company trading as Australian Community Media. History The origins of the ''Port Lincoln Times'' began when the '' Recorder'' in Port Pirie Port Pirie is a small city on the east coast of the Spencer Gulf in South Australia, north of the state capital, Adelaide. The city has an expansive history which dates back to 1845. Port Pirie was the first proclaimed regional city in South ... was taken over by Mrs R.L. McGregor and her two sons. McGregor had worked under David Drysdale at the ''Port Augusta#media, Port Augusta Dispatch'' and claims she was instrumental in suggesting that he start a newspaper in Port Lincoln. In 1925, she was approached by another former ''Dispatch'' employee, Maurice Hill, to sell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Lang (actress)
Ethel Isabel Lang (1902 – November 1995), also known as Ethel Brunton, was an Australian actress prominent as a pioneering local radio performer during the 1930s, but also appeared in numerous stage roles. From the age of seven she appeared in school plays and concerts before being asked to play Napoleon's son in ''The Royal Divorce''. Stage roles included Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'' and ''The Merchant of Venice'' Radio career Her career in radio began in 1924, and while raising a family during The Depression, World War II and beyond, she had an independent career: *Leading parts in Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC radio feature plays 1930–40. *in ''One Man's Family'' for commercial radio 2SM. *as "Aunt Jenny" in ''Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories'' for commercial radio 2UE 1943–51. *as Mrs Lawson in the long-running ABC serial ''The Lawsons'', then as Mary "Meg" MacArthur in its even longer-running sequel "Blue Hills (radio serial), Blue Hills". *minor parts in other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Radio Dramas
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Dramas
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension." Radio drama includes plays specifically written for radio, docudrama, dramatized works of fiction, as well as plays originally written for the theatre, including musical theatre, and opera. Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s radio drama began losing its audience. However, it remains popular in much of the world. Recordings of OTR ( old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors, libraries and museums, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Australian Radio Dramas
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