Issue Details: First known date: 1936... 1936 Merry-Go-Round : A Drama for the Microphone by Outspan
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'He uses the method of the "flash-back" – the reminiscences of an elderly man under an anaesthetic and manages to bring forward an accurate picture of the history of the last forty years. Although occasionally lapsing into sentimentality, the dialogue had all the laconic sense of every day talk.'

Source:

'Merry-go-round', Sydney Morning Herald, 1 June 1936, p.4.

Exhibitions

Notes

  • Merry-Go-Round won first prize in the Australian Broadcasting Commission's 1936 Australian plays and sketches competition. Prize-winning plays were promised production, and a number of other scripts were taken up for revision and later production, including another of Afford's scripts, A Woman Called Ruth.

Production Details

  • 1936

    First broadcast (nationally) on Sunday 30 May 1936, from 7:45pm.

    Producer: Lawrence H. Cecil.

    1937

    Produced again (from the Adelaide studios) on 1 October 1937.

    Producer: Lawrence H. Cecil, who spent a period in Adelaide at this time producing drama for national broadcast (though he was customarily based in Sydney).

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