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There Are No Bugles
''There Are No Bugles'' is a 1953 Australian radio serial. It was a spy thriller by Harry Reidy set in the Northern Territory, including Darwin and Rum Jungle, Northern Territory Rum Jungle or Unrungkoolpum is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia, about 105 kilometres south of Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin on the East Branch of the Finniss River (Northern Territory), Finniss River. It is 10 kilomet .... Premise "The story concerns the tracking- down of a gang of uranium thieves. Leading character is security officer Christopher Hastings, who has flown to Darwin to organise the investigation. Uranium ore is being moved from Rum Jungle to Darwin for export to the Un/ted States, but the ships on which it is loaded mysteriously catch fire in mid-ocean." Cast *LLoyd Berrell *Ron Whelan *Margret Christensen *Diane Hunter as Leslie Morgan Reception " A good laugh is guaranteed to all locals," said the ''Darwin Northern Standard''. The ''Advocate'' said "The st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rum Jungle, Northern Territory
Rum Jungle or Unrungkoolpum is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia, about 105 kilometres south of Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin on the East Branch of the Finniss River (Northern Territory), Finniss River. It is 10 kilometres west of Batchelor, Northern Territory, Batchelor and shares a boundary with Litchfield National Park. The joint traditional owners of this area are the Kungarakany, Kungarakan and Awarai, Warai peoples, and their rights to the land are recognised in the Finnis River Land Claim, which was granted in May 1981. The European name for this area derives from an incident in March 1873 when miners from the nearby John Bull goldmine met a bullocky, teamster who was carting stores between Southport, Northern Territory, Southport and Pine Creek, Northern Territory, Pine Creek. The teamster tapped a cask of rum that he was carrying and shared it with locals. After waking up from the effects of the teamster's hospitality, they found that he had st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mail (Adelaide)
The ''Sunday Mail'' (originally titled ''The Mail'') is an Adelaide newspaper first published on 4 May 1912 by Clarence P. Moody. Through much of the 20th century, ''The Advertiser (Adelaide), The Advertiser'' was Adelaide's morning broadsheet, ''The News (Adelaide), The News'' the afternoon tabloid, ''The Sunday Mail'' a vehicle for covering weekend sport, and ''Messenger Newspapers'' covering community news. "Sunday Mail" is a business name of Advertiser Newspapers Pty Ltd, a private company that is part of News Corp Australia, which since 2004 has been a component of the U.S. multinational mass media company, News Corp. History ''Mail'' In 1912, Clarence Moody initially set up three newspapers – the ''Sporting Mail'' (1912–1914), ''Saturday Mail'' (1912–1917), and the ''Mail''. The first two titles lasted only a few years, and the ''Mail'' itself went into liquidation in late 1914. Ownership passed briefly to George Annells and Frank Stone, and then to Herbert Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Standard
The ''Northern Standard'', also known by the uniform title ''Northern standard (Darwin, N.T.)'', was a newspaper published in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from 1920 or 1921 to 1955. The paper was published by the North Australian Workers' Union from 1928 to 1955. The '' Northern Territory of Australia Government Gazette'' (1873–present) was published in at least four different Northern Territory newspapers, which are still available online through Trove Trove is an Australian online library database owned by the National Library of Australia in which it holds partnerships with source providers National and State Libraries Australia, an aggregator and service which includes full text documen .... They were: * ''Northern Territory Times and Gazette'' (1873–1883; 1890–1927) * ''The North Australian'' (1883–1889) * '' The North Australian and Northern Territory Government Gazette'' (1889–1890) * ''The Northern Standard'' (1929–1942) * (''Commonwealth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s Australian Radio Serials
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 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 * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annex the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establishes his headquarters and the colonies the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Australian Radio Dramas
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia. ** The Central Intelligence Agency, CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the Unidentified flying object, UFO phenomenon. * January 15 ** Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. ** British security forces in West Germany arrest 7 members of the Naumann Circle, a clandestine Neo-Nazi organization. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record is never broken. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
