NEW RADIO PLAYS FOR SUNDAY EVENINGS
FTER 18 months of comparative inactivity, the Drama Production Department of the NBS has begun producing plays again, and the first of a new batch will be heard on Sunday, September 19. Production and recording of plays ceased early in 1942 when shortage of disc blanks and casting difficulties held everything up. Six new plays are now scheduled, and some have already been recorded. They will be heard in the early evening programme from 2YC on the third Sunday of each month. The first one, on September 19, is a farce by H. R. Jeans
(author of 500,000 Dogs Went to Town and The English Love Music). It is called This Sheep Made News, and concerns the strange adventures of a sheep which swallowed a diamond. The October play will be Pipe Dream, by a New Zealander, J. Wilson Hogg, who won a radio-play competition in 1937. He is at present teaching in New South Wales, and the theme of his new play derives from the tale o the Pied Piper of Hamlin — in Pipe Dream the piper whistles all the rogues out of Nazi Germany. Another comedy by Jeans, Did Bacon Eat Lamb? calls up, with the aid of a Time-Machine, the voices of Chaucer, Milton, Leigh Hunt, Byron, Gray, Shelley, Keats and others in an absurd but clever satire. Red is the Morning, a drama written by Cecil Maiden and set in Soviet Russia during the German advance on Sebastopol is the December fixture, and it will be followed in January and February by Three Men on a Raft (J. Jefferson Farjeon), and Ten Minute Walk (a thriller by H. R. Jeans). These plays will be heard from other stations also in their turn.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 220, 10 September 1943, Page 15
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