Singapore Spy Explained
| Singapore Spy |
| Format: | serial drama[1] |
| Runtime: | 30 mins |
| Start Time: | 8pm |
| End Time: | 8.30pm |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Home Station: | 2FC |
| Director: | Paul Jacklin |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 26 |
Singapore Spy is a 1939 Australian radio drama serial from Edmund Barclay set in Singapore.[2] It was an adventure serial in the vein of his earlier works Khyber and Shanghai.[3]
Premise
British agents fight an enemy agent organisation, the Two Brothers, in Singapore.[4]
Select episodes
- Ep 1 (9 Jan) - The Two Brothers
- Ep 2 (16 Jan) - Murder on the High Seas[5]
- Ep 3 (27 Jan) - Cross Purposes
- Ep 4 (3 Feb) - The Lion's Den
- Ep 5 (10 Feb)
- Ep 6 (17 Feb)
- Ep 7 (24 Feb) Death at the Dance
- Ep 8 Guilty Glenda
- Ep 9 Doped
- Ep 11 Gone Away
- Ep 12 Grund Goes Home
- Ep 13 Marcia's Choice
- Ep 14 Fire
- Ep 15 Glenda's Guile
- Ep 16 Mister Mee's Farewell
- Ep 17 Where is Marcia?
- Ep 18 Lost at Sea
- Ep 19 (May) The Fatal Hour
- Ep 20 (May) Roger's Game
- Ep 21 (May) Shots in the Night
- Ep 22 (5 June) Diamond Cut Diamond
- Ep 23 (12 June) One of the Two Brothers
- Ep 24 (19 June) Gone to Earth
- Ep 25 (26 June) Jaffrey's Farewell
- Ep 26 Last ep (3 July) - Glenda's Secret
Notes and References
- News: No title . . 27 . 1,401 . South Australia . 1 April 1939 . 25 September 2023 . 13 (Magazine) . National Library of Australia.
- Marion Consandine, 'Barclay, Edmund Piers (Teddy) (1898–1961)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barclay-edmund-piers-teddy-9425/text16569, published first in hardcopy 1993, accessed online 25 September 2023.
- News: New Radio Serial . . 455 . Queensland, Australia . 8 January 1939 . 25 September 2023 . 15 . National Library of Australia.
- News: "Singapore Spy." New National Serial. . . 30 . 9488 . New South Wales, Australia . 3 January 1939 . 25 September 2023 . 2 . National Library of Australia.
- News: "Murder on the High Seas." . . 8671 . New South Wales, Australia . 13 January 1939 . 25 September 2023 . 7 . National Library of Australia.
