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Issue Details: First known date: 1958... 1958 A Time of the Serpent
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'A play by Bruce Stewart based on the legend of Mrs. Fraser a story they tell in Queensland'.

Source:

Radio Times, 17 January 1958, p.54.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on BBC Home Service Basic on 25 January 1958, from 9:15pm.

    Producer: Peter Watts.

    Cast members included Joan Hart (Mrs Fraser), Andrew Sachs (Lieutenant Rettar), Frank Windsor (Captain Marston), Stephen Jack (Johnny, an aborigine), Jack MacGowran (Bracefell, a convict), and Bruce Stewart (The Storyteller).

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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) ,       1958 .
      Series: form y separately published work icon Saturday Night Theatre United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1943-1998 6430225 1943 series - publisher radio play

      A BBC radio anthology series broadcasting (usually) ninety-minute radio plays on Saturday nights: the plays were usually genre focused (crime, mysteries, or comedies) and included original works and adaptations of stage plays and novels.
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  • Fraser Island, Maryborough - Hervey Bay - Fraser Island area, Maryborough - Rockhampton area, Queensland,
  • 1830s
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