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form y separately published work icon Dossier on Dumetrius single work   radio play   thriller   - 104 quarter-hour episodes
Is part of Major Keen Lindsay Hardy , 1951 series - author radio play
Issue Details: First known date: 1951... 1951 Dossier on Dumetrius
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

The first of five Major Keen radio serials, Dossier on Dumetrius is a spy story set in post-war London. The Dumetrius document is gathering dust in a silent room until it comes to the attention of MI5 and Major Gregory Keen.

Notes

  • The story was later re-written by Hardy in novel form as Requiem for a Redhead.

Production Details

  • 1951: Premiered on 5 February 1951 (continuing through until 2nd October 1951) on radio station 2UE (Sydney). Prod. Lawrence Henry Cecil. Original Music Ludo Philipp. - Cast: Bruce Stewart (Gregory Keen), Frank Waters (Tommy Coutts), Guy Doleman (Dumetrius), Dinah Shearing (Hedy Bergner), Reginald Goldsworthy (Peter Ridgeway), Alan White (Godowski), Ruth Cracknell (Dora).

      • Philipp's theme music for the serial is titled 'Conflict and Destruction.'
      • Re-broadcast in 1955 by 2GB (Sydney).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1951

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Lindsay Hardy, the Man Who Wrote Dossier on Dumetrius : Born and Brought up in Victor Harbor, to War in the Middle East, North Africa, New Guinea, Writing in Australia, Hollywood, London, New York, to Permanent Expatriacy in London Peter Adamson , Walkerville : Peter Adamson , 2014 10772908 2014 single work biography

Lindsay Hardy was Australia’s finest writer of suspense thrillers for radio. Born in Victor Harbor, South Australia, he moved to Sydney, joined the army in December 1939, was wounded twice (once in North Africa and again in New Guinea), returned to Australia, and began writing radio serials. He and his serials soon became household names. He then sought fame in Hollywood and was successful, until McCarthyite hysteria saw him refused residential status. Disappointed, he moved to Canada and London; came back to Sydney, then finally, with very littlework in Australian radio and television for writers of drama, returned to England and permanent expatriacy. (Publication Summary)

y separately published work icon Lindsay Hardy, the Man Who Wrote Dossier on Dumetrius : Born and Brought up in Victor Harbor, to War in the Middle East, North Africa, New Guinea, Writing in Australia, Hollywood, London, New York, to Permanent Expatriacy in London Peter Adamson , Walkerville : Peter Adamson , 2014 10772908 2014 single work biography

Lindsay Hardy was Australia’s finest writer of suspense thrillers for radio. Born in Victor Harbor, South Australia, he moved to Sydney, joined the army in December 1939, was wounded twice (once in North Africa and again in New Guinea), returned to Australia, and began writing radio serials. He and his serials soon became household names. He then sought fame in Hollywood and was successful, until McCarthyite hysteria saw him refused residential status. Disappointed, he moved to Canada and London; came back to Sydney, then finally, with very littlework in Australian radio and television for writers of drama, returned to England and permanent expatriacy. (Publication Summary)

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