Singapore Spy is a 1939 Australian radio drama serial from Edmund Barclay set in Singapore.[3] It was an adventure serial in the vein of his earlier works Khyber and Shanghai.[4]
| Genre | serial drama[1] |
|---|---|
| Running time | 30 mins (8:00 pm – 8:30 pm) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | 2FC[2] |
| Written by | Edmund Barclay |
| Directed by | Paul Jacklin |
| Original release | January 9 – July 3, 1939 |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
Premise
editBritish agents fight an enemy agent organisation, the Two Brothers, in Singapore.[5]
Select episodes
edit- Ep 1 (9 Jan) - The Two Brothers[6]
- Ep 2 (16 Jan) - Murder on the High Seas[7]
- Ep 3 (27 Jan) - Cross Purposes
- Ep 4 (3 Feb) - The Lion's Den[8]
- Ep 5 (10 Feb)
- Ep 6 (17 Feb)
- Ep 7 (24 Feb) Death at the Dance[9]
- Ep 8 Guilty Glenda
- Ep 9 Doped
- Ep 11 Gone Away
- Ep 12 Grund Goes Home
- Ep 13 Marcia's Choice
- Ep 14 Fire
- Ep 15 Glenda's Guile
- Ep 16 Mister Mee's Farewell
- Ep 17 Where is Marcia?
- Ep 18 Lost at Sea
- Ep 19 (May) The Fatal Hour
- Ep 20 (May) Roger's Game
- Ep 21 (May) Shots in the Night
- Ep 22 (5 June) Diamond Cut Diamond
- Ep 23 (12 June) One of the Two Brothers
- Ep 24 (19 June) Gone to Earth
- Ep 25 (26 June) Jaffrey's Farewell
- Ep 26 Last ep (3 July) - Glenda's Secret
References
edit- ^ "No title". The Mail (Adelaide). Vol. 27, no. 1, 401. South Australia. 1 April 1939. p. 13 (Magazine). Retrieved 25 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (December 30, 1938), "Radio Pot-Pourri", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 32 (27), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-714523298, retrieved 25 September 2023 – via Trove
- ^ Marion Consandine, 'Barclay, Edmund Piers (Teddy) (1898–1961)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barclay-edmund-piers-teddy-9425/text16569, published first in hardcopy 1993, accessed online 25 September 2023.
- ^ "New Radio Serial". Sunday Mail. No. 455. Queensland, Australia. 8 January 1939. p. 15. Retrieved 25 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ ""Singapore Spy." New National Serial". Daily Examiner. Vol. 30, no. 9488. New South Wales, Australia. 3 January 1939. p. 2. Retrieved 25 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Australasian Radio Relay League (January 6, 1939), "Sunday.... January 8", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 33 (1), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-712918370, retrieved 25 September 2023 – via Trove
- ^ ""Murder on the High Seas."". Macleay Argus. No. 8671. New South Wales, Australia. 13 January 1939. p. 7. Retrieved 25 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Australasian Radio Relay League (January 27, 1939), "Singapore Spy – A Dramatic Serial Written For Radio", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 33 (4), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-712926356, retrieved 25 September 2023 – via Trove
- ^ Australasian Radio Relay League (February 17, 1939), "Singapore Spy", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 33 (7), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-712967710, retrieved 25 September 2023 – via Trove