This Lonely Heart
This Lonely Heart is a radio play by Arch Oboler
Contents
The original text
A radio drama about the great and undying romance of Nadezhda Filaretovna and composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
First broadcast on 14 January, 1940, directed by Roger Pryor with Arch Oboler and Bette Davis.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans for the SABC as Die Verlangende Hart by an unnamed author. Though no translator is named, it could possibly have been by the playwright Paul Roubaix.
Broadcast history in South Africa
1953: Broadcast by the Afrikaans Service of the SABC from Cape Town on 4 May 1953.
Sources
https://www.rusc.com/old-time-radio/This-Lonely-Heart.aspx?id=32132
A copy of the SABC radio text of Die Verlangende Hart, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archive in 2022.
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