form y separately published work icon Flash Jim Vaux single work   radio play  
Adaptation of Flash Jim Vaux : A Ballad Opera Ron Blair , 1971 single work musical theatre
Issue Details: First known date: 1975... 1975 Flash Jim Vaux
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'This rogue's comedy with ballads tells the saga of James Hardy Vaux, an English petty thief who was three times transported to New South Wales. Highly successful in Australia, this play gives a vivid picture of the early history of a continent settled by the inmates of the prisons of Hogarth's London.'

Source: Radio Times, 4 December 1975, p.31.

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Notes

  • Produced in the ABC studios in Sydney, but appears to have been produced specifically for the BBC series of Australian plays.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 7 December 1975, from 7:10pm.

    Producer: Ron Blair.

    Cast members included John Larking, Gerry Duggan, John Morris, Martin Vaughan, Paul Bertram, Mark Kelly, Helen Verne, Charles Colman, Ron Blair, John Gaden, Nancy Hayes, Mae Cecil, Arthur Dignam, John Llewellyn, and Terry Clarke.

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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) ,
      1975 .
      Series: form y separately published work icon The New Australian Drama United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1975-1976 7952756 1975 series - publisher radio play

      A series of Australian plays adapted as radio plays for BBC's Radio 3 between November 1975 and January 1976.

      The series was introduced by Katharine Brisbane in a piece broadcast on 23 November 1975, and the first play in the series, Peter Kenna's A Hard God, was broadcast on 26 November 1975.

      The plays are listed below in broadcast order.

      Number in series: 3
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