form y separately published work icon The Message single work   radio play  
Issue Details: First known date: 1951... 1951 The Message
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'ANCIENT Greece, in that heroic age when action and speech encouraged high principles (even among the slaves), is the setting. This is the story of one of those slaves who in fulfilling the whimsical and drunken wager of his master, to prove his loyalty, imperils his own life. In fact, the message he is requested to take to a bloodthirsty general, a great distance away, will mean his immediate doom once it is delivered.'

Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 2 June 1951, p.13.

Production Details

  • Broadcast by 2UE on 5 June 1951, from 8:30pm.

    Cast: Alistair Duncan, Lionel Stevens, Robert Cubbage, John Cazabon, Lloyd Berrell, and John Hansberry (narrator).

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: 1.41
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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