The Odyssey of Runyon Jones

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The Odyssey of Runyon Jones is a radio play by Norman Corwin (1910-2011)[1].

The original text

A radio play about a boy ho searches for his lost dog in a make-believe world.

Originally broadcast in the USA on 4 April, 1944.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans as Die Wedervaringe van Runyon Jones by Tertia Prinsloo.

Broadcast history in South Africa

1963: Die Wedervaringe van Runyon Jones broadcast from Johannesburg on Radio Suid-Afrika on 4 October at 19h35.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Corwin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFoRSt59q3E

Copy of the SABC text of the Afrikaans version broadcast in 1963, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022.

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