form y separately published work icon The Gathering Storm single work   radio play  
Issue Details: First known date: 1951... 1951 The Gathering Storm
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'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.

Affiliation Notes

  • Radio adaptation of Gordon Glennon's London stage play, "Gathering Storm", and Reynor Barton's novel, "Envy My Simplicity".

Production Details

  • Played on 2WL Radio Theatre program on 30 Apr. 1951. 

    Director: E. Mason Wood

    Cast:

    Lloyd Berrell (as Ned Hardlestone)

    Dorothea Dunstan (as Myrtle Grey)

    John Unicomb (as Frankie Hardlestone)

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

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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      Australia,
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      Macquarie Network ,
      1951 .
      Series: form y separately published work icon Caltex Theatre Melbourne : Macquarie Network , 1948 14526974 1948 series - publisher radio play

      Radio series, including, but not limited to, adaptations of well known novels and plays. 

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