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Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 The Currs
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'Tasmania, 1832. Edward Curr, master of the Van Diemen's Land Company, tries to gain control of his wife, his convict stonemason and the wild landscape in this harsh outpost of the Empire.'

Source:

Radio Times, 6 July 2000, p.115.

Notes

  • The third in a loose four-part anthology, 'The Songs that Houses Sing', 'set in houses which sing their secrets' (Radio Times, 6 July 2000, p.115). All other plays in the anthology were set in the UK.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 4:15 pm on 12 July 2000.

    Cast members included Julia Ford, Garry Cooper, and Colin Tierney.

    Director: Mary Peate.

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