🎧 Episode 19

Hear “Episode 19” from Wings Above The Diamantina, a collection of Australian radio mystery presented by Heritage Radio Vault.

Wings Above The Diamantina begins with an aircraft and a disturbing puzzle in remote Queensland. A young woman’s condition and the circumstances surrounding the plane demand more than a routine explanation. Arthur Upfield’s detective Napoleon Bonaparte, known as Bony, brings close observation and an understanding of the country to a mystery in which isolation changes the terms of the investigation.

📻 About the programme
The radio serial adapts Upfield’s 1936 novel. Australian radio historian Craig Nugent documents a Broadcast Advertising Pty Ltd production starring Ron Randell as Bony, first heard on Sydney’s 2SM in 1939. The adaptation places a detective with Aboriginal and European heritage at the centre of an outback case, carrying the novel’s landscape and investigative questions into connected radio chapters.

📚 Recording notes
Presented as a surviving historical recording. Original audio quality varies.

🎙️ Related listening
On Safari, Man In The Iron Mask, The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe.

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✉️ Recording information and enquiries: markwilliams@heritageradiovault.com