These Few

New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 199, 16 April 1943, Page 9

These Few

week by week to the exploits of Coast Patrol from the Commercial stations. Now a second series of this feature is taking the air. Coast Patrol is a dramatised story about Britain’s air force and the adventures of R.A.F. men on a coastal station. Many of the sound effects used are actual recordings made in the air in fighter and reconnaissance ’planes. In every way this feature attempts to be as near authentic as possible; to give a real picture of the lives of the men in the R.A.F. on this type of work. The story has for its inspiration Winston Churchill’s oft-quoted phrase: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." The characters of Coast Patrol are some of "the few." The author is Maurice D. Chapman, who has written a number of radio serials which have been broadcast in Australia, New Zealand, England, America, and also over Radio Luxemburg. Chapman’s wife is an experienced stage and radio actress, who performs under the name of Iris Hart, and she here plays the part of Yvonne Mahera mysterious young foreign girl who | AST year, many people listened-in

sounds as though she may be a spy. Alan Macgregor, the flight-lieutenant of the coastal command is, off the stage, Keith MacDonald, an advertising manager. Eric Bush, who portrays a young Australian flight-lieutenant in Coast Partol, is an announcer on 5AD. He is also a professional actor, singer and dancer. In ~ «45 with Jean Mackay he won the Australian ballroom dancing championship, and the same year he won the Australian surf championship. He has acted in Sunny, The Merry Wido.v, The Chocolate Soldier, Katinka, and other plays. Other radio. actors who will be heard again in this feature are JRobert Matthews, who plays Squadron-Leader Harvey Lane, Cyril Sparrow, an Adelaide solicitor and amateur actor, who plays Group-Captain Kelett, and John Cameron, who appears as Wing-Com-mander Black. Players who are new to this series of Coast Patrol’ are Ray Walshe, Richard Moore, and Margery Irving. "Coast’ Patrol" (second edition), may be heard on Mondays, Tue$days and Wednesdays at 7.30 p.m. It is already on the air from 1ZB and 2ZB, and it will begin from 3ZB on April 26, and trom 4ZB on May 10.