CHANNEL DREDGER
[RADIO-SCRIPT]
An episode of the Australian series Short Stories of the Air…
[Wireless Weekly] “There is nothing quite so eerie as the sound of fog-horns coming from one
cannot see where, and there is nothing so blood-chilling as being aboard a boat feeling its way
through the blanket of a heavy fog. Add to the fog and the fog-horns a ghostly barge and you have
a story that leaves you thinking pretty seriously. When such a story as ‘Channel Dredger’ is
written for radio, sound effects become all important, and knowing the excellence of the sound
effects in previous ‘Short Stories of the Air,’ listeners to ‘Channel Dredger’…can be assured of an
eerie and thrilling experience.”
[CHRONOLOGY]
SHORT STORIES OF THE AIR (2GB, SYDNEY)
[Wednesday—9:15-9:30 PM]
December 11, 1935 “Channel Dredger”
[“…a fog-horn and a ghost ship will contrive to send cold shivers down
your back…”]