form Lost Generation single work   radio play   - 60min.
Issue Details: First known date: 1945... 1945 Lost Generation
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According to an article in the Launceston Examiner, this was a 'war loan play', later adapted by Foster for the stage play And the Moon Will Shine. (Source: 'Visitor from Sydney – Writes and Produces Plays for Radio', Examiner, 7 January 1947, p.5.)

Adaptations

And the Moon Will Shine Lynn Foster , 1946 single work drama
Lost Generation Lynn Foster , 1948 single work drama

Described in contemporary newspapers as 'the story of a Digger killed in New Guinea returning in spirit to trace his life through world conditions after the 1914-1918 war to the present day'.

Source:

'Light-Shade at Minerva', Truth, 1 February 1948, p.30.

Notes

  • According to an article in the Launceston Examiner, this was a 'war loan play', later adapted by Foster for the stage play And the Moon Will Shine. (Source: 'Visitor from Sydney – Writes and Produces Plays for Radio', Examiner, 7 January 1947, p.5.)

    Foster also adapted the radio play to the stage as The Lost Generation in 1948, when it premiered at the Minerva alongside George Bernard Shaw's Village Wooing and Noel Coward's Fumed Oak.

Production Details

  • First broadcast on Tuesday 15 October 1945, in support of the Fourth Victory Loan Campaign. The play was simulcast across all stations, both national and commercial.

    Cast: included 35 radio stars, including John Saul, Thelma Scott, and Queenie Ashton.

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