"I AM ALBERT JONES"
Jones, one of the finest radio plays from the pen of Max Afford, .the Australian playwright, has just been completed by the NBS, and the play will be heard for the first time early in November, from 1YA, Max Afford is known to New Zealand listeners as ‘a writer of radio thrillers. Some time ago his serial The Mysterious Mr. Lynch was produced by the NBS, this being followed more recenily by Grey Face, another adventure for the redoubtable sleuth Jeffery ‘Scagecaid of I Am Albert
I Am Albert Jones, however, is a thriller of a different colour. It is, briefly, a tale of a little Cockney clerk who comes into an inheritance, and because Europe is still at peace and because he has always had a hankering to see Germany, he resigns his job, packs a sketch-book, and sets forth. Trusting and peculiarly innocent, he sees nothing but good in Germany and in the Germans he meets, and he little knows that some ruins he has sketched conceal a secret arsenal, and that he is being shadowed by the Nazi Department of Public Investigation. . . . But the manner in which Albert Jones makes a heroic though unwitting sacrifice for England, provides a cunningly workedout climax.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19410926.2.22
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 118, 26 September 1941, Page 9
Word count
Tapeke kupu
209"I AM ALBERT JONES" New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 118, 26 September 1941, Page 9
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in