Passport to Yesterday
Passport to Yesterday is a radio play by Enid Hollins ()[]
Contents
The original text
A play about a girl who wakes up on a beach, not knowing how she got there. A young man arrives and offers to help her.
Broadcast in Australia on ABC's Saturday Playbill, 8 May 1954, directed by John Cairns.
Broadcast on BBC Home Service Basic on 3 November 1960.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans as Voor die Preekstoel ("before the pulpit") by an unnnamed author.
Broadcast history in South Africa
1961: Voor die Preekstoel recorded in the SABC's Cape Town studios in September, directed by Pieter Grobbelaar, and broadcast nationally from Johannesburg on the SABC Afrikaans Service on 27 October.
Sources
ABC weekly, Vol. 16 No. 18 (1 May 1954): p.24[1]
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/cb0e769cdde74c729819315e4453f556
Bound copy of the typed text of Voor die Preekstoel, containing details of the broadcast, 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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