This Lonely Heart

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This Lonely Heart is a radio play by Arch Oboler. (Also referred to as The Lonely Heart)

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, on the programme Arch Oboler’s Plays, 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.

Broadcast history in South Africa

November 1945: Broadcast by SABC radio station Durban and Pietermaritzburg "A" (English) as The Lonely Heart with music by the SABC orchestra conducted by J Schulman.

1953: Broadcast by the Afrikaans Service of the SABC from Cape Town on 4 May 1953.

Sources

https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Site-Early-Radio/Early-Radio-Collection/IDX/Best-Broadcasts-of-1939-194081.pdf

https://www.rusc.com/old-time-radio/This-Lonely-Heart.aspx?id=32132

Radio Week 9th November, 1945, pg 17.

A copy of the SABC radio text of Die Verlangende Hart, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archive in 2022.

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