Secret Informer
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 Wireless Weekly 5 July 1941 | |
| Genre | drama play |
|---|---|
| Running time | 60 mins (7:30 pm – 8:30 pm) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Written by | Gordon Ireland |
| Directed by | John Cairns |
| Original release | 7 July 1941 |
Secret Informer is a 1941 Australian radio play by Gordon Ireland about fifth columnists working on Australian radio.[1][2]
The play was recorded in 1940 but had censorship issues and was delayed.[3]
ABC Weekly called it "a racy behind-the-scenes account of Fifth Column tactics in a broadcasting studio. In the best traditions of espionage the villain is the man you’d least suspect, and the code he uses to put across news of troop movements so ingenious that we feel Gordon Ireland is wasted as Music Critic of the ABC Weekly."[4]
A critic from Wireless Weekly said "I am not trying to be rude about this play because I believe that, if I could understand it, I would acknowledge its invention and design. But I could not keep up with the lightning deductions of [the hero] Mr. Pendleton, who would obviously have made a very good spy himself had he not been a music critic or a secret agent."[5]
Ireland appeared in the original production.[6]
Leslie Rees called it one of the best Australian radio dramas of 1941.[7]
The ABC produced the play again in 1948.[8]