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Issue Details: First known date: 1938... 1938 Boiled or Fried
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'The play takes us back to the trenches of 1914-18 and the object Is to Illustrate ironically the reactions of four members of an 18-pounder gun detachment when a French mademoiselle, who ls Introduced Into their shell-broken billet, turns out to be not quite the person they think she is' (Leslie Rees. 'We Shall Have Drama', p. 6).

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Production Details

  • Producer: John Cairns.

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      Melbourne, Victoria,: 1938 .
      Series: form Radio Drama Week [1938] Australian Broadcasting Commission (publisher), 1938 series - publisher radio play

      Eight Australian authors will be represented in the Broadcasting Commission's Radio Drama Week, which will be opened at 6.30 p.m. on Sunday by the Federal Controller of productions, Mr F. D. Clewlow...' ('Broadcasting,' p. 9).

      Tonight (Sunday)... the Australian Broadcasting Commission's second Australian Radio Drama Week will be launched by the Commission's Federal Controller of Production (Mr. P. D. Clewlow).... Every night next week national programme number one will feature an Australian radlo play ('Radio Drama Week,' p. 22).

      The plays, place of performance and broadcast order were:

      1. Samson (Stivens); 8 May

      2. Brother of Mankind (Barclay) ; 9 May [Episode 13 of the Into the Light series]

      3. A Sirius Cove (Shave) and Boiled or Fried (Brooksbank); 10 May

      4. Two Thousand Million Years (Peters); 11 May

      5. The Jackaroo (Barry); 12 May

      6. Conglomerate (Turner); 13 May

      7. Daybreak (Shepherd); 14 May
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1914-1918
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