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form y separately published work icon Not a Nice Story single work   radio play  
Note: As Della Foss Pain.
Issue Details: First known date: 1951... 1951 Not a Nice Story
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'IT was inevitable that Roy Smith would meet a man like Bill Taylor in a place like Yellow Joe’s. Roy kept telling himself what a "dive" the place was, but somehow he was drawn to it. Despite the revulsion he felt, one night he agreed when Bill Taylor asked if he would join him for a drink. The story he heard from this derelict of a man made him feel almost ill, yet he was fascinated. Could this story have any connection with the black rages he flew into at home — a happy home till unaccountably he would lapse into a black temper over some trivial thing, and almost strike his wife.'

Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 24 March 1951, p.13.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on 2UE on 27 March 1951, from 8:30pm.

    Cast: Richard Davies, Douglas Kelly, Ken Hudson, Margaret Mouchemore, and Elizabeth Wing.

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: 2UE , 1951 .
      Extent: 30min.p.
      Series: form y separately published work icon Actor's Choice Australia : 2UE , 1950- 19335225 1950 series - publisher radio play

      Initiated by 2UE in August 1950, Actor's Choice was a series of radio plays by local writers, each chosen as a starring vehicle by a leading Sydney radio actor, and produced in 2UE's Sydney studios. One play was broadcast each week from the week of 21 August 1950.

      The series invited scripts from listeners as well as soliciting scripts from well-known local writers. Authors were paid £15 per script, and for the 1950-1951 production year, the studio also ran a competition for the four best plays, with prizes of £100, £50, £25, and £10. The four winning plays were rebroadcast as the final four plays of the year.

      Actor's Choice ran to a second series, which may have been less popular than the first: it appears to have received less coverage in industry magazines (such as ABC Weekly) and newspapers, and information is scarcer. Details on series two on AustLit are currently incomplete.

      Sources include 'New Programmes Mark Start of Major Radio War', Sun, 22 August 1950, p.29.

             Number in series: 1.32
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