Radio Australia playscripts, c.1969 1970

Component identifier:

Series 4

Content Summary:

The series contains many of Aldous' production scripts for two series of plays broadcast on Radio Australia. The first series, Storyteller, was broadcast on short wave and replayed from transcription tapes in a number of countries. The second series, The Australian Tradition, consisted on 27 minute dramatised features, each dealing with some event or personality from Australia's past. Again, these were broadcast on short wave and replayed on 16 overseas radio organisations. As Aldous recollects, in the United States Storyteller had an estimated 3.2 million listeners each week and The Australian Tradition had 9 million listeners.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were donated by Allan Aldous on 1 April 1997.

Names:

Allan Aldous

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