Three Mile Cross (radio play)

Three Mile Cross
Genredrama play
Running time45 mins (8:00 pm – 8:45 pm)
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
Hosted byABC
Written byCatherine Shepherd
Directed byJohn Cairns[1]
Original release14 January 1940

Three Mile Cross is a 1940 Australian radio play by Catherine Shepherd about Mary Mitford.[2][3][4]

The ABC bought it in 1939.[5] It was produced again in 1941 and 1948.[6]

According to Leslie Rees the play "presented the writer divided in loyalty between claims of family and work — frustrated through the need for maintaining her father and yet making a success by using the simple material around her, as in Our Village."[7]

  1. ^ "SUNDAY .... JAN. 14", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, Sydney: Wireless Press, January 13, 1940, nla.obj-717896972, retrieved 26 February 2024 – via Trove
  2. ^ "RADIO". The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate. Vol. 66, no. 6. New South Wales, Australia. 13 January 1940. p. 7. Retrieved 22 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Catherine Shepherd Play On Air Tomorrow". The Mail (Adelaide). Vol. 28, no. 1, 442. South Australia. 13 January 1940. p. 2 (THE MAIL Magazine). Retrieved 22 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "TALKS TO BE REPEATED FROM 5AN=CL". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 13 January 1940. p. 8. Retrieved 22 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Plays for the New Year", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 30 December 1939, nla.obj-1353625841, retrieved 22 February 2024 – via Trove
  6. ^ "NEW SOUTH WALES RADIO PROGRAMMES SUNDAY, August 1 A.B.C. Details", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 31 July 1948, nla.obj-1431208486, retrieved 26 February 2024 – via Trove
  7. ^ "Plays of the Air— Last Competition Plays", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 17 August 1940, retrieved 22 February 2024 – via Trove