OldCaptivity.net

A research project on the author Nevil Shute.

My thesis is that his novels can and should be read together as one larger united work of Moral and Political Philosophy.

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Radio Plays

The Far Country

A free online listen to the first episode (number 41 in their catalogue) which deals with Jack and Jane’s courtship that only her Aunt approved of. Dialogue is invented by writer Peter Yeldham and this contains almost nothing from Shute.
An oral history interview with the writer Peter Yeldham, which I have not yet been able to access https://pro.nfsa.gov.au/titles/6CZPHW52

No Highway

16th January 1952
20.00-21.30:
Curtain Up! No Highway (1948) by Nevil Shute (1899-1960) adapted by Gilbert Travers Thomas.
Is an aircraft safe to fly?
No producer given.
With Gwen Cherrell, Tucker McGuire, Richard Hurndall and Sebastian Shaw.
No other details given.
Repeated on 21st January 1952.
[A different production was by Raymond Raikes for BBC Home in 1954 which also had Sebastian Shaw.]
[Also produced by Betty Davies for BBC Home, 1963 rptd 1967]
[Also a three part serial by Brian Miller on R4 in 1986]
[Another version was made in 2 parts by Toby Swift for R4 in 2010, repeated on R4X in 2013]