Crime and Punishment (radio play)

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Crime and Punishment is a 1947 Australian radio play based on the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Adapted by Richard Lane, it was called one of the best radio plays presented by the Macquarie Network, owing in part to Finch's reputation as a radio actor at the time. [1]

It was one of a series of radio plays Finch appeared in around this time adapted from Russian novels other being Such Men are Dangerous and Redemption .

Smithy's Weekly called it "another of those deplorable potted-classics which commercial radio caterers occasionally dish up as a change from our daily serve of popular slops." [2]

The Argus called it "one of radio's most stirring dramas". [3]

Co star Max Osbiston recalled "I'll never forget either the feeling Peter exuded and the vibrations that came from that gaunt personality... You forgot it was a radio play or in fact a play of any kind. Here was a cathartic confession coming from a man haunted all these years by this double murder." [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "TODAY'S INFORMATION GUIDE". The Herald. No. 21, 801. Victoria, Australia. 5 April 1947. p. 12. Retrieved 17 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "ON THE AIR". Smith's Weekly . Vol. XXIX, no. 5. New South Wales, Australia. 29 March 1947. p. 21. Retrieved 17 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "Heralded as Year's Best Radio Drama". The Argus (Melbourne) . No. 31, 386. Victoria, Australia. 5 April 1947. p. 14. Retrieved 17 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ Faulkner, Trader (1979). Peter Finch a Biography. p. 111.
  5. ↑ "It's on the air". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. VIII, no. 18. New South Wales, Australia. 16 March 1947. p. 46. Retrieved 17 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
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