Grey Face

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Grey Face
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Wireless Weekly 11 May 1940
Genreserial drama
Running time30 mins [1] (8:00 pm – 8:30 pm)
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
SyndicatesABC
Starring Peter Finch
Written by Max Afford
Original release13 May 1940 –
1940
No. of series1
No. of episodes12

Grey Face is a 1940 Australian radio serial by Max Afford featuring his detective hero, Jeffrey Blackburn. [2] [3]

Contents

It starred Peter Finch and Neva Carr Glynn, reprising their roles from The Mysterious Mr. Lynch . [4]

The serial was very popular and was recorded again by the ABC in 1950 starring Nigel Lovell and directed by Frank Harvey. [5]

Premise

"It's about the alleged murderous propensities of an Egyptian mummy in a lonely house on the Cornish moors, with Afford sleuth Geoffrey Blackburn pursuing the clues." [6]

Episodes

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References

  1. ↑ "BROADCASTING". The Sydney Morning Herald . No. 31, 942. New South Wales, Australia. 15 May 1940. p. 9. Retrieved 27 December 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "TO BIRTH OF JEFFERY BLACKBURN". The Independent. No. 2445. 16 January 1941. p. 7. Retrieved 27 December 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "Max Afford and his Plays", ABC Weekly, 2 (19), 11 May 1940, nla.obj-1370253175, retrieved 27 December 2023
  4. ↑ "New Thriller Serial By Max Afford For National Relay", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 35 (18), Sydney: Wireless Press, May 4, 1940, nla.obj-718461788, retrieved 27 December 2023
  5. ↑ "Drug addict's struggle back to happiness". The Sun. No. 12, 681. New South Wales, Australia. 19 September 1950. p. 23 (LATE FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 27 December 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "RADIO ROUNDABOUT". The Mail (Adelaide) . Vol. 40, no. 2, 002. South Australia. 14 October 1950. p. 31. Retrieved 27 December 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "MONDAY . MAY 13", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 35 (19), May 11, 1940, nla.obj-718479407, retrieved 27 December 2023


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