form y separately published work icon Around These Parts single work   radio play  
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 Around These Parts
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'It is a tense and dramatic story of a young man’s relations with his family.

'The central character, Frank Harpur, the crippled younger son of a small-town chemist, is tremendously fond of his elder brother, Al, who has looked after him since he was a boy: When Al marries May Jorggans, a stranger in town, Frank naturally investigates, as best he can, her past life. He does not believe her good enough for Al, and his discoveries seem to prove his belief.

'When Al goes away, Frank finds May seeing a great deal of an old acquaintance of hers, Dr. Kessler. Believing that she is betraying his brother, Frank kills her with poison from the dispensary, and then finds out too late that his opinion of May was all wrong. The play then takes a dramatic turn to a brilliant and unexpected climax.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 10 June 1950, p.27.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on 2UW, 3DB, 4BK, and 5AD on Sunday 11 June 1950, from 8pm.

    Cast: John Unicombe (Frank) and Gwen Plumb (May).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: 2UW , 1950 .
      Series: form y separately published work icon Lux Radio Theatre Australia : 2GB 2UW Radio 2UE Sydney Ltd , 1939-1956 7997676 1939 series - publisher radio play

      Produced by Harry Dearth, this was an Australian version of the American radio anthology series Lux Radio Theatre. According to the National Film and Sound Archives' holdings record, 'Mostly the plays were adaptations of contemporary Broadway or West End plays and American or British films but occasionally were Australian written.'

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