'In May, 1932, two young German airmen, Bertram and Klausmann, set off from Cologne to fly to Australia. They got lost over the Timor Sea and eventually landed in an uncharted part of the Australian bush. The story of the physical and mental sufferings they endured for nearly seven weeks before they were rescued was told by Bertram in his book, ' Flight into Hell ', and is to be recapitulated in radio-dramatic form tonight.'
Source: [Radio guide], Radio Times, 7 August 1936, p.36.
Influenced by Bertram's memoir Flight into Hell, but it is not clear whether it is an adaptation or not.
Broadcast first on the BBC regional program (11 August 1936) and then on the national program (12 August 1936).
Cast: Including Leo de Pokorny (Hans Bertram), Howard Marion-Crawford (Adolf Klausmann), and Gordon Ireland (Captain Crane).
Flight into Hell
New York (City)
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Harper and Brothers
,
1936
6834772
1936
single work
autobiography
Bertram's account of his crash-landing, with mechanic Adolph Klausmann, in the Kimberley region in 1932, and their privations before rescue.
