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Issue Details: First known date: 1952... 1952 Siesta in the Sun
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'TWO orphans, Jimmy (Michael Plant) and Helen (Wendy Playfair), found themselves having to battle with the world when they were barely out of their 'teens. Circumstances separate them and Helen marries, only to find that her husband, Phil Armstrong, is a drug addict. She leaves him and goes to a sea side resort to spend a holiday with Jimmy, who had got himself a job at the shooting gallery on the pier. One evening as he returns home he hears the sound of quarrelling in the flat he and Helen have rented in a block conducted by a Mrs. Gordon (Connie Hobbs). When he enters there is a body lying on the floor. Tension heightens as and Helen try to get rid of the body by placing it on the beach as if it were a man sunbathing. How the situation is resolved and the role of Mrs. Gordon in the business brings this exciting play to a satisfying climax.'

Source: 'For Next Week', ABc Weekly, 12 January 1952, p.13.

Production Details

  • Broadcast by 2UW on 19 January 1952, from 8:30pm.

    Director: John Appleton.

    Cast: John Appleton (as Announcer), Michael Plant (as Jimmy), Wendy Playfair (as Helen), Connie Hobbs (as Mrs. Gordon), Harvey Adams (as Red), Ray Hartley (as Tommy), and Paul McNaughton (as Officer).

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