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Issue Details: First known date: 1974... 1974 How Does Your Garden Grow : A Play
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form y separately published work icon How Does Your Garden Grow? United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1976 7952906 1976 single work radio play

'The play explores the interrelationship of three Australian prisoners but, rare in such dramas, retains an affectionate note of optimism: you cannot suppress the search for happiness. even in such a diminishing environment.'

Source: Radio Times, 27 November 1975, p.31.

Notes

  • Set in Bathurst gaol.
  • Dedication: For Robert MacKinnon.

Production Details

  • First produced at the New Nimrod Theatre, Sydney, 15 November 1974.

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