form y separately published work icon I Was Here Before single work   radio play  
Note: The scriptwriter for this work has not been traced.
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 I Was Here Before
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'John Mason has spent twenty years in a world of doubt and bewilderment. He has wandered over the many places always seeking and yet not quite knowing the thing or place he is looking for. Fianlly, one day, he comes to a small village and has the overwhelming feleing, "I was here before." This time the feeling is so strong he takes a job in the township, and is befriended by his boss, a newspaperman. The unravelling of a lost memory, and the situations it uncovers, has been woven into this radio play.'

Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 9 December 1950, p.27.

Production Details

  • Broadcast by 2UE in Sydney on 12 December 1950, at 8:30pm.

    Cast includes Jack Raine, Neva Carr-Glynn, Maiva Drummond, Harp McGuire, John Tate, Ethel Gabriel, Ivan Vander, and Charles Tingwell.

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: 1.17
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