"The Old Curiosity Shop"
ANETTE SCOTT, whose picture is on the cover of The Listener this week, realised one of her ambitions last year when she played Little Nell in a threepart radio adaptation of The Old Curiosity Shop. Though this was her first dramatic role on the air, she had already done a good deal of broadcasting in sound and had acted as announcer in television programmes for children. She had also appeared on the stage. But New Zealanders will know her best for her work in films. The daughter of the
character actress Thora Hird and James Scott, a musician, she. started her film career at the age of two, and when ‘she was ten she had the leading part. in No Place for Jennifer. Since then she has become even better known through No Highway in the Sky, The Magic Box and The Galloping Major. First broadcast by the BBC about the middle of last year, The Old Curiosity Shop was adapted for radio by Mabel Constanduros, one of the bestknown names in British radio, both as
actress and writer. ‘The producer was Cleland Finn. i
Writing in the London Star after he had heard the finst. instalment, Maurice Gorham said: "Tt is no easy job to reduce a Dickens novel to three one-hour _instalments without depending heavily on a_ narrator but this first programme Seemed to me likely to succeed . equally with those who know the book and those who don’t. My guess is that the story of Little Nell will prove almost as moving on the air as it did in print." The Old Curiosity Shop is to be heard first on. Saturday nights from 3YC, starting at 9.32 p.m. this Saturday (April 25).
V ELL known on the London stage before settling in Austfalia,» Winifred Hindle (above) plays the unconventional Aunt Emily in Never Let Me Love You, an Australian gerial’ at present broadcasting from 2XN each Wednesday and Friday at 9.15,am. Miss Hindle has performed with such notables as Emlyn Williams, Michael Redgrave, Cicely Courtneidge, Godfrey Tearle and Angela Baddeley. The:story of Never Let Me Love You .centres round the Jordan sisters, Connie and Barbara, and Craig Adams, the man they both love. Its conflicts arise from this triangular situation, and, from the fact that the young and beautiful’ Connie is terribly disfigured after a motor accident, The serial was written by New Zealander Gordon Grimsdale, and produced 4 in Sydney...by Rob .Roberts. and another* New Zealander, Hilda Scurr,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 17
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