Radio and Television work

Containers:

Box 116-124 (MS 4887)

Component identifier:

Series 19

Content Summary:

This series contains correspondence, scripts of plays written by Hardy for radio and television, and scripts of Hardy's own television appearances.

The letters date from 1946 until 1972, and consist of those he received from the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the British Broadcasting Corporation, ATN Channel 7 Sydney, Fauna Bonaparte, Crawford Productions Pty Ltd, Australian Sound and Television Pty Ltd and broadcasting station 2GB Pty Ltd. Fan mail to Hardy is also included.

Hardy's scripts for radio and television plays have been arranged chronologically with those undated placed last. Letters, notes and research material have been kept with the scripts where this was the original order. Some of the early radio plays were written under the pseudonym 'Ross Franklyn'. The plays include 'Usual women', 'Jacky-Jacky gentleman, bushranger and penal reformer', 'The man who knew all the answers', 'Bony and the mouse' (adapted from Arthur Upfield's Bony series), 'One pair of eyes', 'The load of wood' (adapted form Hardy's short story), 'Cobb and Co. Party' (for children) and 'The snag'. There are also scripts for 'Australia Project - North West' written for the Commonwealth Film Unit, 'Call me by my proper name' based on the story outline 'Man alone' by Cecil Holmes, 'God save the Queen', 'The cockie in Bungaree' and episodes for the series 'Our man in Canberra' (1971), the 'Mavis Bramston Show' and '66 and all that'.

Many notes and scripts for the ABC program 'Would you believe it' series 1-5, 1970-1974 have been organised together and form a large part of the series.

Also included are typescripts of the interviews Hardy made with Tony Morphett on the ABC television series 'Spectrum' in 1966 and with Marius Webb on the ABC radio program 'Books and ideas' in 1972 concerning David Ireland's book The unknown industrial prisoner.

See also 1982 consignment (Boxes 180-184), 1984 consignment (including Boxes 210-211) and the 1988 consignment (Boxes 224-225).

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of the writer Frank Hardy were purchased by the Library in seven consignments between 1975 and 1988.

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