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Joy Hollyer was an Australian writer whose career ranged from the 1940s until the 1970s. She collaborated a number of times on radio scripts with Edmund Barclay [1] She wrote a large number of adaptations for ABC radio as well as television scripts, short stories and plays for children. [2]

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  1. ↑ "JOY HOLLYER. Radio Scripter". Crookwell Gazette . Vol. LVIII. New South Wales, Australia. 20 May 1942. p. 6. Retrieved 7 September 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ 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 7 September 2023.
  3. ↑ "Tales of the Southern Cross". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  4. ↑ "A.B.C. radio plays for the week", ABC Weekly, Sydney, 20 (36), 3 September 1958, retrieved 7 September 2023– via Trove
  5. ↑ "Domestic life of an ageing novelist", ABC Weekly, Sydney, 20 (35), 27 August 1958, retrieved 7 September 2023– via Trove
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