The Tyrant Years

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ABC Weekly 27 Aug 1958

The Tyrant Years is a 1958 Australian radio play by Joy Hollyer about the last years in the life of Charles Dickens. [1]

Contents

The play was well received and was produced again in 1959, [2] 1962, [3] 1968 and 1974.

Premise

"At 45, (1857), Dickens was at the height of his powers. But at home his personal life was beginning to break up. His pallid wife, Catherine, was quite inadequate for him and his attention turned to a beautiful young actress, Ellen Ternan. It is from this point that Joy Hollyer develops the complicated and absorbingly interesting pattern of a brilliantly successful and vital man growing old and unwilling to accept age." [4]

Cast of 1958 Production

Cast of 1959 Production

References

  1. ↑ "Domestic life of an ageing novelist", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 27 August 1958, retrieved 13 February 2024– via Trove
  2. ↑ "A.B.C. radio plays for the week", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 25 March 1959, retrieved 13 February 2024– via Trove
  3. ↑ "AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION 2CY 2CN". The Canberra Times . Vol. 37, no. 10, 361. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 20 October 1962. p. 21. Retrieved 13 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "A.B.C. radio plays for the week", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 27 August 1958, nla.obj-1447149329, retrieved 13 February 2024– via Trove
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