Cirrus@Austlit

'Half Light is set in the New South Wales timber country, where logging townships have sprung up among forests of giant trees. As night falls, a great loneliness descends upon these centres, in the half-light.

'In one such town Frank Vickers is manager of a timber company. He is happily married, with his wife Nora and son Barry. Then into his life comes Joanna Fairweather, to whom he was engaged 12 years earlier.

'She is a strange woman, intensely lonely and seemingly grateful for the friendship given her by Frank and Nora. But gradually she begins to exert an insidious influence on the household—undermining the atmosphere of happy domesticity—until it becomes apparent that she is a bitter, fanatical woman, determined to take revenge for the happiness she feels she has missed in her life.

'One person, however, a tough woods man named Ted Michael, realises her true character. As Joanna’s vicious cunning increases, the action mounts to a tensely dramatic climax.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays of the Week', ABC Weekly, 18 March 1950, p.27.

'It is a tense drama of a young man's infatuation for a girl which actually grows into an obsession.

It tells the story of Ned Hardlestone, a young farmer who goes to a nearby town one night and meets Myrtle Gray. He becomes blindly and desperately infatuated with her. The girls does not return his love and plays on his infatuation for her own ends.'

Source: Source: '2WL Radio Round-Up', South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus, 30 Apr. 1951, p. 3.

'A fine dramatic play about an old housekeeper and her two sisters who are living at the same place. The landlady asks the two sisters to leave, and the housekeeper, hoping to keep the two sisters in the house, kills the landlady.'

Source: '2WL Radio Round-up', South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus, 28 May 1951, p. 3.

'About a girl who makes the front pages of every newspaper, but not in the way she had dreamed.'

Source: 'Notes on Radio', The Sunday Herald, 22 Jul 1951, p. 12.