The Search for the Golden Boomerang

The Search for the Golden Boomerang
Genredrama serial
Running time15 mins (6:10 pm – 6:25 pm)
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
Written byLorna Bingham
Recording studioSydney
Original release15 April 1941[1]

The Search for the Golden Boomerang is a 1941 Australian radio serial for children from George Edwards Productions.[2][3]

According to contemporary accounts "It tells of the adventures of a white man and his family, lost when searching for gold, who are eventually saved on the point of death by a tribe of warriors on the hunt."[4]

It was hugely popular and was adapted in a book as well as being repeated a number of times.

References

  1. ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (April 12, 1941), "ABORIGINAL FOLK LORE IN SERIAL", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 36 (15), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-714853077, retrieved 27 September 2023 – via Trove
  2. ^ ""THE SEARCH FOR THE GOLDEN BOOMERANG"". Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh. New South Wales, Australia. 3 April 1941. p. 5. Retrieved 27 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (May 10, 1941), "Australian Aborigines In Radio Serial", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 36 (19), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-714875484, retrieved 27 September 2023 – via Trove
  4. ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (April 5, 1941), "STRANGE TALES OF ABORIGINES IN SERIAL "Search For Golden Boomerang" Entailed Research", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 36 (14), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-714837504, retrieved 27 September 2023 – via Trove
  • Bingham, Lorna.; Lahm, Hartmut. (1941), The search for the golden boomerang, Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books., Sydney: Winn & Co, nla.obj-5222584, retrieved 27 September 2023 – via Trove