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Adaptation of The Beckoning Shore E. V. Timms , 1950 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1954... 1954 The Beckoning Shore
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Adaptation of E.V. Timms's novel.

Notes

  • Where the novel was set in Fremantle, the radio adaptation moved the action to Sydney, New South Wales.

Production Details

  • Cast members included Margo Lee, Roger Climpson, Alan White, Sheila Sewell, Bruce Stewart, Queenie Ashton, Marcia Hathaway, Leonard Teale, June Salter, Denys Burrows, Kevin Brennan, and Neva Carr Glyn.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1954
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Grace Gibson Productions , 1954 .
      Extent: Thirteen weeksp.
      Series: form y separately published work icon The Book Club of the Air Sydney : Grace Gibson Productions , 1954 7591569 1954 series - publisher radio play

      A series of radio adaptations of best-selling novels.

      Contemporary advertisements indicate that they were planning on adapting five novels over thirteen weeks per novel; the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) has records for four adaptations.

      Only The Beckoning Shore is listed here: the other novels for which the NFSA has records (Strange Honeymoon, The Draycotts, and Echo My Tears) are not by Australian authors.
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