AustLit

'Radio serial following the lives of Pepper and his sister Peggy as they pass from their late teens into maturity, through their youthful adventures, their early romances and to the lives they eventually build for themselves and their families.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 151

'Inspirational radio drama about the Reverend Thomas Andrews whose parish is in the poorer part of the city. He lives with his sister and niece next to his church - the Church of the Good Samaritan. when Ray Benson, a man wrongly convicted of a crime is released from prison, he seeks to destroy Mr. Andrews for preaching what he perceives as lies. The story tells how the minister deals with Benson and how he helps him overcome his bitterness.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 89.

'This startling, romantic, medical drama tells of Belinda Barry, a woman who is beautiful, soft, sweet and clinging to the men she meets but in reality is greedy, unscrupulous and completely evil.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 77.

'A romantic story of wealth, power, hate, fear and the terrifying vengeance sought by the women wronged by Jason Clay.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 45.

'Radio serial based on the novel by E.V. Timms. The gripping and emotionally dramatic story of three unusual women, their intrigues, their romances, their concealed hatreds and betrayals of each other, set against the turmoil and hazards of the epic days of early Queensland settlement.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 170.

'Radio serial of the story of two brothers. Two men who loved the same woman. Alice Lang is a young English hospital nurse who flies to South Africa to marry Andrew Miller, the senior Game Warden of a wildlife sanctuary which he opens with his brother Rusty. Against a primitive background, haunted by crime and witchcraft, Alice learns to know her own heart and body, her capacity for fear and suffering and for courage with which to face her final ordeal.' (National Film and Sound Archive Australia)

'True half-hour stories about world figures who have changed the course of history.'

Source: 'Advertising', The Canberra Times, 8 Sep. 1956, p. 5.

A mystery thriller set in Hollywood. Bill North finds himself with a corpse to deal with and a frame for murder around his neck.

'Portia says that being a successful wife and mother is most important of all. She is capable as she is beautiful--is at once an outstanding lawyer and a warm-hearted and simple home-loving woman. She is engaged in a constant struggle to stay out of professional life in order to make a home for her husband and her son, Dickie.

Walter Manning, a writer of great ability, truly loves Portia and Dickie, yet he finds a great deal of difficulty in settling down because of his love for the pace and excitement of high adventure.

Leslie Palmer, glamorous and talented, is the publisher of an important magazine. She is determined that Walter Manning leave the small town where he and Portia have made their home and return to the city. Her reasons are not purely business.'

Source: 'FAMOUS SERIAL COMING TO 2BH', Barrier Miner, 30 Mar. 1954, p. 5.

Adaptation of E.V. Timms's novel.

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.

'Fictionalised recreations of authentic criminal trials from the United States and Britain, presented from the viewpoint of the defence.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 77.

'The great private detective, Philip Marlowe, solves 'The Lady in the Lake' and 'The High Window.'

Source: 'Radio Series Collection Guide', National Film and Sound Archive, p. 152.

'Stories of the strange link between men and money, to be unfolded in quarter hour episodes ... [they] will deal with men like Andrew Carnegie, King Gillette, and sir Thomas Lipton.'

Source: 'GUY CRITTENDEN'S 2WL RADIO ROUND-UP', South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus, 31 Dec. 1952, p. 2.