{
  "title": "DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE",
  "category": "[NOVEL; RADIO-SERIAL]",
  "article": "George Edwards and his wife Nell Stirling were the first superstars (and the first millionaires) of\nAustralian radio. In their heyday in the mid-Thirties they were on the air from dawn to dusk and\nbeyond, doing a breakfast club-type show in the morning, a children’s adventure serial in the late\nafternoon, an episode from the casebook of Inspector Scott and a literature-based serial in the\nearly evening, and some other type of dramatic anthology series later on into the night. Plus on\nSunday evenings would come the dramatic highlight of the week, the George Edwards Sunday\nPlay. And, starting about ’37 or ’38, the long-running rural-humour serial, Dad and Dave.\nNell appears to have been the business brains of the team, and after a couple of years doing a\ngrueling schedule of live broadcasting all day long, she negotiated with another Sydney station to\ntake on all their productions as transcriptions. Thus the George Edwards Company was able to\nexpand out to many markets, including the BBC’s chief rival in those days, Radio Luxembourg.\nOne of the reasons that George Edwards became so popular with listeners was his great and\nalmost uncanny skill to do several characters at once within the same sketch (which, before radio,\nhe had mainly done just as a “parlor trick” for friends). It became a national past-time to tune in\nand try to guess which and how many of the voices in the night’s episode or drama belonged to\nGeorge Edwards. Later, in the 1940s, he cut back on his multi-voicing and generally played just\none role per sketch, but since the cast was never announced at show’s end, many listeners\ncontinued to believe that most of the parts per show were still being played by the star.",
  "origination": "Radio 2, London (BBC).",
  "duration": "January 5-February 9, 2001.",
  "personnel": "Joss Ackland (reader), Jane Marshall (producer.",
  "extant_recordings": "Unknown.\nDR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE\nJoss Ackland reads Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel.\nDR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE\n[???day—9:15-9:30 PM]\nJan. 5, 2001\n[1] “Story of the Door”\nJan. 12, 2001\n[2] “The Carew Murder Case”\nJan. 19, 2001\n[3] “Incident of the Letter”\nJan. 26, 2001\n[4] “The Last Night”\nFeb. 2, 2001\n[5] “Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative”\nFeb. 9, 2001\n[6] “Henry Jekyll’s Statement”\nYvonne Antrobus (scriptwriter—2007, The Saturday Play),\nClaire Grove (director—2007, The Saturday Play),\nCAST [2007, The Saturday Play]: Sam Dale (Lanyon), Adam Godley (Dr. Jekyll), David\nHorovitch (Utterson), Christine Kavanagh (Mrs. Utterson), Joseph Kloska (Poole), Ian Masters\n(Sir Danvers), Emma Noakes (Girl / Maid), Mark Straker (Enfield), Bethan Walker\n(Housekeeper).",
  "chronology": "",
  "sources": "",
  "gallery": "",
  "images": []
}