form y separately published work icon Alamein Murder single work   radio play   detective  
Alternative title: El Alamein Murder; The Alamein Murder
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 Alamein Murder
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Described by newspapers as 'an unusual detective play' ('Worth Hearing', Herald, 5 October 1950, p.18), Alamein Murder was a 'drama of a crime committed in the heat of battle, and solved by the company commander and his batman' ('George Hart's Radio Round-up', Sun, 26 September 1950, p.23).

Notes

  • Variously identified as 'Alamein Murder' and 'The Alamein Murder' at time of broadcast. Retroactively referred to as 'El Alamein Murder' in a 1951 newspaper article.

  • Author G.K. Fearnside later won third prize for authors in the Actor's Choice contest (chosen after the first year of production) for this script.

Production Details

  • Selected by Moray Powell as part of Actor's Choice, and broadcast by 2UE in Sydney on 26 September 1950.

    Cast includes Moray Powell.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: 2UE , 1950 .
      Extent: 30min.p.
      Series: form y separately published work icon Actor's Choice Australia : 2UE , 1950- 19335225 1950 series - publisher radio play

      Initiated by 2UE in August 1950, Actor's Choice was a series of radio plays by local writers, each chosen as a starring vehicle by a leading Sydney radio actor, and produced in 2UE's Sydney studios. One play was broadcast each week from the week of 21 August 1950.

      The series invited scripts from listeners as well as soliciting scripts from well-known local writers. Authors were paid £15 per script, and for the 1950-1951 production year, the studio also ran a competition for the four best plays, with prizes of £100, £50, £25, and £10. The four winning plays were rebroadcast as the final four plays of the year.

      Actor's Choice ran to a second series, which may have been less popular than the first: it appears to have received less coverage in industry magazines (such as ABC Weekly) and newspapers, and information is scarcer. Details on series two on AustLit are currently incomplete.

      Sources include 'New Programmes Mark Start of Major Radio War', Sun, 22 August 1950, p.29.

             Number in series: 1.06
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