Dulcie Gray Murder In Melbourne

(4.2 stars; 10 reviews)

An adaptation for radio of her novel by Dulcie Gray Richard Quayle, a pilot for an Australian airline, arrives in Melbourne to ask his girl-friend, Anna Matheson, to marry him. He finds her dead in the bedroom of a squalid little hotel… Production:……Audrey Cameron Richard Quayle:…Richard Hurndall Guy Brooks:…Bruce Stewart Manager of the Buona Hotel:……Ralph Hallett Dr Manton:……..Keith Williams Detective Transom:……Tom Watson Detective-Inspector Peters, of the Melbourne Criminal Investigation Bureau: Michael Turner Gordon Frodsham:……Jeffrey Hodgson Valerie Harding:……..Mary Wimbush Felix Milton:……Philip Leave Betty Ward:…..Beverley Dunn Mrs Matheson:…..Shirley Cameron Porter at the Buona Hotel:……Tom Watson Bill Saunders:…..Robert Hewitt Sue Saunders:…..Leila Blake  Janie Thomas:……Paddy Turne Larry French:……..Peter Noel Cook Mrs Linette Barking:……Brenda Dunrich Frank Ward:…….Keith Williams Telephone operator, air hostess, hotel receptionist, customers, policemen, and guests played by: Nigel Anthony and members of the cast Saturday-Night Theatre: Murder in Melbourne First broadcast: Sat 18th Feb 1961, 20:30 on BBC Home Service Basic Crime fiction set in Melbourne has presented the city from an early colonialist and sometimes touristic self-consciousness to an almost complete absence of reference to place at all, especially in books intended for an overseas readership. From the latter decades of the 20th century, however, there has been a more assured use of Melbourne settings in a variety of subgenres.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.