"THE ENEMY WITHIN"
no" Lal OR its latest feature, the Commercial Broadcasting Service has selected one of the most dramatically topical subjects available. "The Enemy Within" which will be heard from all ZB stations, at 7.30 p,m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, is one of the most forceful dramas of recent times. It deals with Nazi espionage in Australia, and while the whole thing is fiction, there is sufficient basis of fact in the play to make it absorbingly interesting. The scripts themselves are announced as having been passed and approved for radio broadcast by the official radio censor of Commercial Broadcasting in Australia. The first airing of the show will be from 1ZB, on June 3, at 7.30. Listeners who tune in. will find a gripping plot, excellent dialogue, and amusing interludes. Walter Pym portrays Franz Beckendorf, a Nazi spy, sent out to Australia to organise espionage. Pym produced and took leads in the radio serials, "Grand Hotel," " Blood Relations," and "Emile Zola," and he also had parts in "Long Live the Emperor," and
"Dr. Danton," both of which have been heard from ZB stations recently. " Long Live the Emperor" is still a popular feature on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 9 o’clock.
Starting dates for "The Enemy Within’? are: 1ZB, June 3; 2ZB, June 10; 3ZB, June 17; and 4ZB June 24, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7.30 p.m.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 49, 31 May 1940, Page 47
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