137:, a stage play he announced in the 1940s but which doesn't appear to have been produced. It was called a comedy dealing with social regeneration. The play was postponed reportedly due to its large cast. A 1943 article asked Coppel, "We’d like to see it. We’ve heard a lot about it. You’ve often been about to produce it but never got very far. Now’s the time. Give yourself and Sydney a chance. "
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and was directed by Frank Harvey. A review of this production called it "a pleasant enough trifle, proving a good starring vehicle for Peter Finch. For a while he stayed in the substrata of understatement, but on the entrance of the ghost a mos seductive shade played by Sheila Sewell, things got
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A travelling young man, Peter, pulls in for a night at a
Kentish village that was once on the sea, but is now inland, because the sea has receded. The inn is haunted by a female ghost, Helene. He also encounters a man called Clifford and a yokel.
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Another critic called it "the most suave and delicately balance radio script we have seen for years, only a trifle... but a trifle that is like a waffle that melts in the mouth. We don't often say, don’t miss this; but, don’t miss this. "
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going so you could hear them. Outstanding was a nice piece of character from erstwhile A.B.C. producer
Charles Wheeler. Production, by Frank Harvey, ideal."
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was a rare work of his that debuted in
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462:. No. 26, 642. Victoria, Australia. 5 September 1940. p. 9
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428:"AT THE STAGE POOR SYDNEY THEATRES HAD GOOD CHRISTMAS"
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The play was produced again in 1942, 1946 and 1958.
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192:"Plays of the Air — Four Australian Plays"
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164:"Broadcast Features From A.B.C. Stations"
16:1940 Australian radio play by Alec Coppel
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252:"ABC Programmes — Wednesday, Sept. 23"
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1050:1940 Australian radio dramas
508:"Whitehall Picks a Thriller"
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1028:Stories from Scotland Yard
667:The Genius and the Goddess
955:The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
915:Appointment with a Shadow
776:Tweeldedum and Tweedledee
434:, Sydney, January 3, 1942
125:The 1946 version starred
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875:Mr. Denning Drives North
752:Mr. Denning Drives North
712:Not in My Bed, You Don’t
883:The Captain's Paradise
705:The Captain's Paradise
222:"Australia on the Air"
971:A Kiss Is Just a Kiss
867:No Highway in the Sky
405:The Argus (Melbourne)
400:"PLAYS FOR AUSTRALIA"
1070:Plays by Alec Coppel
115:is a saucy morsel."
512:The Daily Telegraph
169:The Riverine Herald
135:The Story of an Inn
40:comedy fantasy play
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1022:I Killed the Count
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454:"AFTER SIX YEARS"
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354:3 September
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266:3 September
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176:3 September
127:Peter Finch
108:Leslie Rees
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61:Language(s)
1044:Categories
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931:The Gazebo
859:Smart Alec
691:The Gazebo
548:2 February
538:Pertinent.
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374:ABC Weekly
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196:ABC Weekly
150:References
69:Written by
19:Radio show
843:Obsession
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56:Australia
923:Vertigo
718:Cadenza
459:The Age
347:The Sun
141:Premise
64:English
48:30 mins
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