form y separately published work icon The Lost Years single work   film/TV  
Is part of The Exiles Lynn Foster , 1959 series - author film/TV (number 3 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1959... 1959 The Lost Years
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'The third section of the cycle, The Lost Years, saw Selways of three and ultimately four generations dealing with changing conditions during the depression and the immediately pre-war period. By now the family history is so intricate that anyone coming fresh to the series must have been sadly mystified last night by frequent veiled references to events that have gone before, while those who saw the earlier sections had to spend the first half hour sorting out who had grown up into whom.

'On the other hand, there has been a sufficient proliferation of Selways in the intervening years to permit of more variety than was possible before. They now move quite freely between Sydney and the old homestead at Billabilla. There are errant aunts and their offsprings to be reclaimed, a politician uncle to be heard on the radio, and some suggestion, now that they have largely abandoned their vocation as Archers of the Outback, ever ready with useful hints about the intricacies of sheep-rearing, that there is life beyond the confines of a sheep-farm.'

Source:

'The Lost Years', The Times, 9 February 1959, p.12.

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  • Television play.

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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) ,
      1959 .
      Series: form y separately published work icon BBC Sunday Night Theatre United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1950-1959 6432525 1950 series - publisher film/TV

      Anthology drama series made for the BBC between 1950 and 1959.

      The episodes suffered badly during the BBC's purge of its archives in the 1970s, and little of the original series remains.

      In addition, for the first three years (March 1950 - February 1953), the show was aired live, and so no recordings from those years were ever made.

      Number in series: 10.06
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