The Odyssey of Runyon Jones
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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 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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