Safe Horizon (radio play)
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Genredrama play
Running time60 mins (8:00 pm – 9:00 pm)
Country of originAustralia
LanguageEnglish
| Genre | drama play |
|---|---|
| Running time | 60 mins (8:00 pm – 9:00 pm) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Home station | 2FC |
| Hosted by | ABC |
| Written by | Jon Cleary |
| Directed by | Charles Wheeler |
| Original release | 1 March 1945 |
Safe Horizon is a 1945 radio play by Jon Cleary.
It won equal first prize in an ABC writing competition (alongside Alexander Turner's The Neighbours), out of 234 entries.[1] The play helped launch Cleary's career as a professional writer.[2]
The production was repeated later in the year. Cleary adapted the play into a short story which was published in a 1946 collection of Cleary's stories, These Small Glories.[3]
A group of Australian soldiers try to escape Greece during World War Two, including the cynical Sg McLaglen; Thomson, a truck driver; Beal, an English nurse; and a Greek girl picked up by the escaping party. [4]