The Three Diggers

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The Three Diggers is a 1938 Australian radio serial by E.V. Timms. It aired on 2BL as part of a special radio session for 'diggers'. [1]

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Timms was a former Australian soldier who had served in World War One. Three Diggers was among his best remembered radio work. [2]

Timms was approached to write it by the ABC. It started in January 1938. There was a special session for Australian soldiers five nights a week from 7pm to 7.15pm. The serial Three Diggers aired Monday, Wednesday and Friday. [3] [4]

The serial ran for over 200 episodes, when it was cancelled in mid-1939. [5]

Timms later co wrote the script for the film Forty Thousand Horsemen which was about three diggers in World War One.

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References

  1. ↑ Anthony Barker, 'Timms, Edward Vivian (1895–1960)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/timms-edward-vivian-8818/text15467, published first in hardcopy 1990, accessed online 10 March 2024.
  2. ↑ "Leading Author Was McKee's Hill Farmer". Northern Star . New South Wales, Australia. 23 November 1951. p. 5. Retrieved 10 March 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "Diggers' Session". The Kiama Independent, And Shoalhaven Advertiser . New South Wales, Australia. 29 January 1938. p. 2. Retrieved 10 March 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "BROADCASTING". The Sydney Morning Herald . No. 31, 204. New South Wales, Australia. 5 January 1938. p. 6. Retrieved 10 March 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "BROADCAST FEATURES FROM THE NATIONAL STATIONS". Nambour Chronicle And North Coast Advertiser . Vol. XXXIII, no. 1822. Queensland, Australia. 5 May 1939. p. 11. Retrieved 10 March 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "Maxwell Osbiston New Juvenile Lead for A.B.C. Plays", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per cent Australian Radio Journal, vol. 31, no. 7, Sydney: Wireless Press, 18 February 1938, nla.obj-709977694, retrieved 10 March 2024– via Trove
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