The Odyssey of Runyon Jones
The Odyssey of Runyon Jones is a radio play by Norman Corwin (1910-2011)[1].
Contents
The original text
A radio play about a boy who 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. Now held in the ESAT repository at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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