Audio Recordings

This page will eventually contain my collection of audio recordings, including:

• Local theatre recording from the 1980s

• Slide-show soundtracks

• Songs extracted from the soundtracks

• Girls in Tassie bawdy ballads

Radio Plays

Audio files and images can be downloaded here.

Daybreak

By Don Haworth, broadcast on ABC FM, 21/1/1986 at 8:00 pm. 52 minutes.

Transcript from 24 Hours magazine

A train journey provides the setting for this chilling tale of a young man and his father, lately dead, with David Threlfall as Harold, and Christine Rodska as Fred.

“Not just a good play, but in my opinion a little classic… a rare offering”. (John Wain, The Listener)

“… the Haworth style of dialogue was, as it almost invariably is, a delight to the ear – rich, inventive, precisely wrought, yet still managing to convince the listener that it faithfully reproduces colloquial speech”. (David Wade, The Times)

Two RAF men returning to barracks one winter’s night in wartime, strike up a conversation. Harold has overstayed his leave and although he has a watertight excuse – the death of his father, a farmer – he seems remarkably unsure of it.

During the joinery, Fred gradually draws the story, piece by piece from the hesitant young farm lad. It is a bizarre and bloody tale, which has completely unnerved Harold. Nonetheless, with the ‘daybreak’ of the title, comes Harold’s release from his terrible secret. And with Fred’s guidance he prepares to face the possibility of a new start in life.

Production for BBC by Kay Patrick. BBC transcription.

The Labyrinth

By Valerie Georgeson, broadcast 18/02/1986 at 8:00 PM. 79 minutes.

Transcript from 24 Hours magazine

A tragic story in the Greek tradition which tells of the realistic desperation of Evelyn, a mature unsuccessful actress living alone after a failed marriage. She is constantly haunted by the reproaches of her parents who were delighted when they discovered they had a clever daughter but dismayed by her choice of acting as a career. In her loneliness and frustration she longs for a child and falls pregnant from a casual affair. At the same time she is offered the lead in an important television serial. Evelyn is caught in a labyrinth from which there is no escape. A play of power and passion which makes use of interior monologue, poetry and radio techniques to convey the suffering of a living, breathing credible woman.

When Valerie Georgeson's play was first produced in Britain, critic John Braine, writing in The Listener commented: … “ n offering of rare quality, one of those plays that seem to draw us out of the hard shell of our own life and personality and deep into someone else's … an excellent play”. In this new Australian production for ABC FM, Gillian Lomberg plays Evelyn, and Bernie Davis plays John.

Production by Tony Evans

Evelyn… Gillian Lomberg

John … Bernie Davis

Janis … Joanna Fewings

Julia … Suzanne Peveril

Mother & Mary … Elizabeth Caiacob

Father … James Beattie

Girl in Publishers & Assistant … Penny Brown

Jamie and John Brettley … Dickon Oxenburgh

Librarian … Faith Clayton

Nurse … Jenny Davis

Producer and Anaesthetist … Edgar Metcalfe

Woman in street and Assistant 1 … Joyce Moore

Sound & Special Effects … Edo Brands and Tony Pople

Technical Production … Edo Brands

Producer's Assistant … Jenny Mason

Hans Vonk Recordings
The unpublished recordings of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra under Hans Vonk, copied from the CDs in the possession of Jessie Vonk. The collection consists of *** CDs which originally had been burnt on a computer and were gradually becoming unreadable. *** of the CDs were faulty and unable to be read.

The readable part of the collection was copied to Apple lossless format (m4a) in January 2013 to ensure the recordings were preserved. All the information printed or handwritten on the CDs was transferred to the metadata of each track. Some of the CDs have been slightly edited: tracks were created for multi-movement works, and silence was removed.

The collection is archived at:

Wild Daffodil
Kenny Ball and his Jazz-Men, 1968. Unavailable on iTunes so I have digitised it. Download here.