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September brings us a new product, a focus on Australian stories in our specials, and recognition of that great radio satire How Green Was My Cactus which was first produced forty years ago (think King Bonza the Charismatic, and his Queen Hayseed, Pall Bearer the Treasurer, Arthur and Martha of the Cactus Liberal Party, and so on…)
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First up our new product…
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Scotland Yard Confidential
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Coming Soon
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The crimes dramatised and solved in each of these episodes are taken from the casebook of one of its best (fictional) officers - Superintendent Marshall. First broadcast in 1961, the series is narrated by Alastair Duncan and has a varied and talented cast in each episode
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A famous police force located in one of the world’s largest and best-known cities…the challenges of protecting the metropolis of London are many, wide-ranging and challenging. This force is New Scotland Yard and it is central to the nation’s war against crime.
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52 x 24 self-contained minutes
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A new name for Australia was created 40 years ago… CACTUS ISLAND
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Forty years ago, a cult classic was born in Australia. Thanks to the characterful identities in Australian politics a political and social satire was created by Triffique Productions.
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Initially starring Ross Higgins, Kevin Golsby, Robyn Moore and Keith Scott, it all started out as a ‘one off’ 65 episode series (running for just 3 months, on a Monday-Friday broadcast schedule).
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The inspiration for the series was Paul Keating’s memorable ‘banana republic’ comment: that was all it took to get the comedy juices flowing in the head of chief writer Doug Edwards of Triffique Productions. The much-loved leader of Cactus Island was King Bonza the Charismatic who ruled the island benevolently with his Queen Hayseed at his side.
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The series was riotously hilarious, became an instant hit on all the stations which carried it,
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forcing Doug Edwards to create another another 65 episodes…then another, and yet another.
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It actuallyended up in ongoing production for an incredible 33 years, with well over 7,000 episodes recorded.
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The vast majority of episodes featured just TWO incredibly talented voice actors, Keith Scott and
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Robyn Moore playing every character that Doug created: an incredible achievement in its own right!
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GraceGibsonRadio.com has a massive amount of episodes available for your ‘home entertainment’
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with the sole exception of 2000 when no ‘Best Of’ was released (for no known reason that anyone
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