The Last Outlaw (BBC radio serial)

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The Last Outlaw
Running time30 mins (7:30 pm – 8:00 pm)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Language(s)English
Home stationBBC Light Programme
SyndicatesBBC
Written by Rex Rienits
Directed by Vernon Harris
Original release18 June –
8 August 1963
No. of series1
No. of episodes8

The Last Outlaw is a 1963 British radio serial by Rex Rienits about Ned Kelly. [1] It is not to be confused with the 1980 Australian mini series about Kelly, which has the same name.

The serial was one of a number of dramatisations of Australian historical figures by Rienits. [2]

A copy of the scripts are available at the National Film and Sound Archive in Australia. [3] [4]

The series was broadcast on New York radio in November and December 1967. [5] It was also broadcast on Australian radio in 1964 and 1965. [6]

Episodes

  1. The Prentice Hand (18 June 1963) - Ned Kelly works for bushranger Harry Power.
  2. Partners in crime (25 June 1963) - In 1871, a sixteen year old Ned Kelly is sentenced to three years hard labour for receiving a stolen horse. He is sent to Pentridge prison, Melbourne.
  3. Prelude to War (2 July 1963) - Ned and his step father George King are stealing horses. They decide to move out of it before they are caught by the police.
  4. Wanted-preferably dead! (9 July 1963) - Ned flees to the bush with his brother Dan and two friends, Joe Byrne and Steve Hart.
  5. Euroa to Jerilderie (16 July 1963) - the Kelly gang rob the bank at Euroa.
  6. A Town at Baywith (23 July 1963) - the Kelly gang rob the bank at Jerilderie.
  7. Death or Glory (30 July 1963) - in 1879 the Kelly gang change their hide out.
  8. The Siege of Glenrowan(6 August 1963) - the Kelly gang plan to wreck the railway line near Glenrowan.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "Radio Drama". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. 9 July 1963. p. 2.
  2. ↑ "A.B.C. SERIAL AUTHOR IS A KEEN HISTORIAN A QUARTET OF QUALITY", ABC Weekly, 11 (4), Sydney, 22 January 1949, retrieved 9 July 2023– via Trove
  3. ↑ Doyle, Maryanne. "A Bushranger drama". National Film and Sound Archive.
  4. ↑ The Last Outlaw at National Film and Sound Archive
  5. ↑ "November Programs". WBAI folio. WBAI radio 99.5 FM (New York, NY). November 1967.
  6. ↑ "Radio guide". The Age. 8 October 1964. p. 30.
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