form y separately published work icon The Improbable Adventure single work   radio play  
Note: The scriptwriter for this work has not been traced.
Issue Details: First known date: 1951... 1951 The Improbable Adventure
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'Virginia Glint is proud of her husband, a University lecturer whom she met when she was a student in his science class. Their wedded bliss is only slightly marred every now and then when Virginia finds her husband too engrossed in his books to talk to her. Thinking to give him a change, she accepts an invitation from two of her old classmates, who have recently married, to spend a week-end in the mountains. It is during this week-end that their host, Tom Othey, has an amazing adventure. The story of his late home arrival is so weird that both his wife and the police doubt its authenticity. However, Hillary Glint readily believes Tom’s story, and he is accused of sticking up for his own sex on principle. Not until the Glints are back in their own home does Virginia learn why her husband believed Tom’s story.'

Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 20 January 1951, p.27.

Production Details

  • Broadcast by 2UE in Sydney on 23 January 1951, from 8:30pm.

    Cast includes Ivan Vander (Hillary Glint), Don Crosby, Brenda Senders, Benita Harvey, and Allan Trevor.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: 2UE , 1951 .
      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: 1.23
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