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1930
1930 Jazz Spider, The
1934
1934 Robinson Crusoe
1934 Alias Jimmy Valentine
1933
1933 Inspector Scott
1935
1935 Khyber
1935 Camille (1935)
1935 Love Story of lord Nelson, The
1936
1936 Aesop's Fables Up To Date
1936 Prof Fordney Invites You To A Murder
1936 Its Never Too Late to Mend
1937
1937 A Claim For Justice
1937 Elusive Baronet
1937 Family Doctor, The
1937 Famous Women
1937 Story of Madam Curie
1937 Christina of Sweden
1937 Mill on the Floss, The
1937 Florence Nightingale
1937 Victoria of England
1937 Black Ghost, The
1937 Dad and Dave from Snake Gully
1937 Cleopatra
1938
1938 Frankenstein
1940
1940 Hilltops Of Britain
1940 Grey Face
1940 Hi-Jinks
1940 Station One Mo
1941
1941 Ernest Maltravers
1941 Jolly Roger
1941 West of Cornwall
1941 Hop-a-long Cassidy
1941 Forest Rangers
1941 Plays of the Past
1941 Witches Tale, The
1942
1942 Phantom Valley
1942 They Shall Not Pass
1942 Team Work
1942 Baffles
1943
1943 Doctor's Casebook, A
1943 Pound for Sound
1943 Witches Moon
1943 Down Every Street
1943 Plays for the People
1943 Myer Radio Theatre
1943 On The Run
1944
1944 We Were Young
1944 Children of the Night, The
1944 I Fly on One Wing
1944 Romance of Helen Trent, The
1944 Adventures Of Jonothan Church
1944 Labours of Hercules, The
1944 Green Archer, The
1945
1945 Last of the Randolfs
1945 Overture to Death
1945 George & Nell
1945 A Date with Janie
1954
1954 In Ben Boyd's Day
1945
1945 Jalna
1945 Finch's Fortune
1945 At No 25
1945 Number 25
1945 On The Spot
1945 Clem Dawe's Stag Party
1945 A Case for Cleveland
1946
1946 Human Comedy, The
1946 Three Chums
1945
1945 Katie The Curious Kangaroo
1946
1946 Disraeli
1946 Van Teeters, The
1947
1947 Two Lives Have I
1947 Sincerely Rita Marsden
1947 Afloat with Henry Morgan
1947 Appointment with Fate
1947 Unbeliever, The
1947 Four Generations
1948
1948 Isle of Adventure
1948 Always This Yesterday
1948 Singing Gold, The
1948 Moment of Destiny
1948 Famous Short Stories
1948 Big Story, The
1948 Hester's Diary
1948 Masked Horseman, The (1948)
1948 Forbidden Frontier
1948 A Matter of Luck
1949
1949 Speed Gordon
1949 I Came Here
1949 Mystery of Kestral House, The
1949 For Love of a Woman
1950
1950 Death Takes Small Bites
1950 Robbery Under Arms (1950)
1950 Joe E Brown Show
1950 Jack Davey Club Show
1950 Secret of Pao Shan
1951
1951 Double Demon
1951 Way Of The Eagle
1951 Beau, The
1951 Pride and Prejudice (ABC)
1951 Tom Blake
1951 Great Tradition
1952
1952 St Martin's Summer
1952 Forever to Remain
1952 Pathway of the Sun
1952 Green Door
1953
1953 Contraband
1953 Country Doctor
1954
1954 Death by Horoscope
1954 Hunted One, The
1954 Much Murdoch
1954 Echo My Tears
1954 Chips
1954 Come Away Pearler
1954 Hop Harrigan
1954 Is this your Dream
1955
1955 Wild Brothers
1955 Red For Danger
1955 Tea With The Thomas's
1956
1956 Gulliver's Travels
1956 Crawford
1956 White Rabbit
1956 Clancy of the Overflow
1959
1959 Land God Gave To Cain,The
1959 Bennet Affair, The
1959 Vincent Show
1959 Sammy Anderson Commercial Traveller
1960
1960 Unfinished Letter, The
1960 Red Bull, The
1961
1961 Leonara
1955
1955 Show of Show, The

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The Sinking of the Centaur

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The Sinking of the Centaur

by Ian Grieve

centaur There is a part of Australian history happening off the Queensland coast at the moment.

Something that is never far from the mind of a responsible Radio Transcription Collector is the content of the discs he/she has on their shelves. The members of the Australian Old Time Radio group have openly made recordings available from their collections to descendants and interested parties. We have supported Radio Stations, Television Productions and many individuals with a need to access particular items. We also support the copyright owners of the recordings and seek permissions and work with them.

In view of the publicity surrounding the new search for the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur and the expected find before Christmas, I thought I would share with you a recording from my collection. This recording may not be as popular to some as an episode of Carter Brown Mysteries but it is rather special. It is episode 58 of Lest We Forget from 1943. Lest We Forget was a Red Cross program that combined music of the day, and current news of the Red Cross. Yes, it is a thinly disguised call for donations but this is in the days where ads were often a part of the program and not an interruption.

In this episode, the program features the sinking of the Centaur. The episode will be of interest to many people for the music and songs by William Laird, Tenor William Herbert, Orpheon Choristers and the Heidelburg City Choir. Listening with today's ears it will seem old fashioned and it is. Descendants of those singers and members of the choirs however will have extra reason to listen. During the performance, you will hear details of the sinking of the Centaur just as it was discussed 66 years ago.

At 4.10am 14th May, 1943, Australian Hospital Ship Centaur travelling from Sydney to Port Moresby, New Guinea, was sunk by torpedoe from a Japanese submarine. Controversy evolved around the fact that visibility was clear, the ship was clearly marked as a hospital ship and well lit. There were 363 crew, medical staff and nurses, only 64 were rescued.

The Transcription Disc is very worn with several bad scratches and skips a bit. I have overcome that as best as I could. The Compare for the show is the famous Norman Banks and the program was Directed by Hector Crawford.

The 2nd recording is These were their yesterdays ep42 HMAS Sydney AWA, 1951. The reason I have included this is because I didn't get the opportunity to make it available when HMAS Sydney was found. This recording has significance to me as my Father was on HMAS Sydney and was transferred off as it left on its final voyage. He had passed an exam and was promoted and was exchanged for a rating on a smaller ship who suffered seasickness. That rating was then transferred to HMAS Sydney being larger and they felt he was less likely to feel the effects of sea sickness. Ironic. I felt that since the same group who found HMAS Sydney was handling the search for Centaur, that the two recordings would compliment each other.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Peter Anderson for permission to use Lest We Forget from my collection. NFSA & Chris Maitland for permission to use These Were Their Yesterdays and Craig Nugent for supplying the episode. Centaur image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial.

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Lest We Forget ep 58 These Were Their Yesterdays ep 42

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Lest We Forget ep 58 These Were Their Yesterdays ep 42
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