| This was Sylvia | |
| Format: | drama serial |
| Runtime: | 15 mins |
| Start Time: | 8.30 |
| End Time: | 8.45 |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Home Station: | 2UW |
| Num Episodes: | 208 |
This was Sylvia was a 1957 Australian radio serial by Coral Lansbury.[1]
Lansbury said there were two main types of serials – one about a noble woman "with whom the listener can identify herself", the other "about a monster who will have the effect of catharsis on the listener, and inspire her to feelings of rage and hate and contempt."[2] This was Sylvia was the latter, about a woman who robs her mother and marries her best friend's fiancé. (Another serial of Lansbury's, Jean Hammond, was the former.)[2]
From the National Film and Sound Archive: "The infinite beauty and insatiable ambition of Sylvia Giles meant the ruin of three men. The theme of this dramatic story is summed up in Sylvia's words: 'Women fall into two classes – those whom men make use of and those who make use of men. I've always known to which class I belonged'."[3]