Set in post-World War II South Australia, the homecoming of the second Joanna is soured by the close-knit and guarded Deveron family. Feeling as if she can’t connect with the present, and questioning her reasons for staying, Joanna turns to the past after discovering a set of diaries from her husband's grandmother, the first Joanna. The dairies reveal the skeletons in the Deveron family’s closet. They also help her decide her future.
1948: ABC Radio National, 24 January.
1948: ABC Radio National; 29 March.
1949: ABC Radio National, 12 May (excerpts only).
1951: ABC Radio National, 6 May.
1956: 2GB & 4BH, 29 January. At the Caltex Theatre, Melbourne.
Source: ABC Weekly January 28, 1956. p. 21.)
English filmstar Jane Barrett under exclusive contract to the ABC radio. Barrett plays the role of 'Joanna'.
Barbara Tunbridge provides brief insight into Dorothy Blewett's background as an emerging playwright, her current fulltime employment and The First Joanna as both a stage and radio play.
English filmstar Jane Barrett under exclusive contract to the ABC radio. Barrett plays the role of 'Joanna'.
Barbara Tunbridge provides brief insight into Dorothy Blewett's background as an emerging playwright, her current fulltime employment and The First Joanna as both a stage and radio play.
