Tradesman's Entrance
Australian radio serial
Radio show
Genre | serial drama |
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Running time | 15 mins[1] (7:45 pm – 8:00 pm) |
Country of origin | Australia |
Language(s) | English |
Hosted by | George Edwards |
Created by | Sumner Locke Elliott |
Original release | July 7, 1941 (1941-07-07) |
Tradesman's Entrance is a 1941 Australian radio serial created by Sumner Locke Elliott for the George Edwards Company.[2] It played three times a week.[3]
Edwards said "It is entirely different fom anything I have ever done before, and should make an instant appeal by its delightful freshness and originality.” [4]
One critic called it "a very interesting serial".[5]
Premise
According to one account "it is a simple story about the servants in a big home in prewar London—the butler, the cook the footman, the housemaid and all the others who pa-ss through the door marked "Tradesmen's Entrance"."[6]
References
- ^ "Broadcasting Programmes". Chronicle. Vol. LXXXIV, no. 4, 778. South Australia. 17 July 1941. p. 2. Retrieved 18 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Odd Bits And Pieces", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 37 (11), Sydney: Wireless Press, March 14, 1942, nla.obj-725934527, retrieved 18 November 2023 – via Trove
- ^ "Local and General". Sunraysia Daily. Vol. 22, no. 137. Victoria, Australia. 24 March 1942. p. 2. Retrieved 18 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "GOOD FUN IN EDWARDS PRODUCTION", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, Sydney: Wireless Press, July 5, 1941, nla.obj-721538270, retrieved 20 February 2024 – via Trove
- ^ "Our Readers Write – Or Wrong", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 36 (46), Sydney: Wireless Press, November 15, 1941, nla.obj-722445439, retrieved 18 November 2023 – via Trove
- ^ "Colorful New Radio Comedy To Be Released". Sunraysia Daily. Vol. 21, no. 224. Victoria, Australia. 4 July 1941. p. 3. Retrieved 18 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
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Works of Sumner Locke Elliott
- Careful, He Might Hear You (1963)
- Some Doves and Pythons (1966)
- Edens Lost (1969)
- The Man Who Got Away (1972)
- The Cow Jumped Over the Moon (1937)
- Interval (1939)
- The Little Sheep Run Fast (1940)
- Goodbye to the Music (1942)
- Your Obedient Servant (1943)
- The Invisible Circus (1946)
- Wicked Is the Vine (1948)
- Rusty Bugles (1948)
- Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1951)
- John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953)
- Of Human Bondage (1949)
- Wicked Is the Vine (1949)
- The Crater (1949)
- The Rose Garden (1951)
- We Were Children (1952)
- The Girl with the Stop Watch (1953)
- Before I Wake (1953)
- Friday the 13th (1954)
- Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1954)
- The Women (1955)
- Beloved Stranger (1955)
- The King and Mrs. Candle (1955)
- Daisy, Daisy (1955)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1958)
- The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1959) (US)
- The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960) (Aust)
- Rusty Bugles (1965)
- Water Under the Bridge (1980)
- Rusty Bugles (1981)
- Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)
- Edens Lost (1989 TV mini series)
- Crazy Family (1939)
- Tradesman's Entrance (1941)
- Jezebel's Daughter (1941)
- Grand City (1942)
- Girl of the Ballet (1942)
- The Man in the Dark (1944)
- The Army Hour (1944)
- Lily Parker (1947)
- Scarlet Rhapsody (1947)
- Wicked Is the Vine (1947)
- Ride a Cock Horse (1948)
- The Crater (1948)
- The Rose Garden (1950)
- We Were Children (1954)
- Friday the 13th (1955)