form y separately published work icon Ride a Cock-horse single work   radio play  
Issue Details: First known date: 1948... 1948 Ride a Cock-horse
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'The plot concerns a young Hollywood actress, Kit Sheldon, who, on returning to New York from Hollywood, learns that her husband has been displaying more than unusual interest In an attractive archaeologist, turns her attention to a young man who comes to fix the kitchen sink.'

Source:

'New 5 AD Programmes', Advertiser, 31 July 1948, p.4.

Production Details

  • First broadcast 1 August 1948 at 7:30 om (Melbourne). The Argus noted that the cast members were Brenda Dunrich and Lloyd Berrell ('New 5 AD Programmes', Argus, 31 July 1948, p.4).

    A note in the Sunday Mail for the Brisbane broadcast on 8 August 1948 indicates that Thelma Scott was a last-minute stand-in ('Radiopinion', Sunday Mail, 8 August 1948, p.6).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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      1948 .
      Extent: 60min.p.
      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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