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Note: The script-writer for this radio play has not been traced.
Issue Details: First known date: 1951... 1951 Wide Second
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'SPEEDWAY racing stars Roark Adams and Breeze Cordovan are close friends and young devil-may care Australians. They decide to try their luck in England. And Lady Luck attends them in their venture, notably Roark, who carries every thing before him, including the world’s speedway championship. Luck deserts him when he meets and falls in love with Beth Vernon, a speedway fan, who loves only the man who is always winning. Breeze, less successful than Roark, is also in love with Beth, and the friendship of the two champions is put to the test, especially when Roark continues to be dogged by a run of losing events. The two men ride against each other in another championship, and the tenseness of this event reveals the different plans of the two friends.'

Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 24 February 1951, p.13.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on 2UE on 27 February 1951, from 8:30pm.

    Cast: Deryck Barnes.

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    • 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: 1.28
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