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The billing from the Radio Times issue of 25–31 May 1947, illustrating the night's programmes on radio for Queen Mary including the performance of Three Blind Mice. Three Blind Mice is the name of a half-hour radio play written by Agatha Christie, which was later adapted into a television film, a short story, and a popular stage production .
The story describes the events which lead up to the reformation of an ex-convict. In 1910, dramatist Paul Armstrong adapted the story into a highly successful Broadway play under the title Alias Jimmy Valentine which ran 155 performances at Wallack's Theatre in New York. The play was subsequently adapted for several film versions:
ScreenPlay is a television drama anthology series broadcast on BBC2 between 9 July 1986 and 27 October 1993. Background [ edit ] After single-play anthology series went off the air, the BBC introduced several showcases for made-for-television, feature length filmed dramas, including ScreenPlay . [1]
Sure Thing. (play) Sure Thing is a short comic play by David Ives featuring a chance meeting of two characters, Betty and Bill, whose conversation is continually reset by the use of a ringing bell, starting over when one of them responds negatively to the other. The play was first produced in 1988, and was published in 1994.
The Diary of Anne Frank (play) The Diary of Anne Frank. (play) The Diary of Anne Frank is a stage adaptation of the posthumously published 1947 book The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in 1955. Its script also primarily formed the basis of the Academy Award -winning 1959 film adaptation .
NBC Presents: Short Story is a half-hour American radio program offering dramatizations of contemporary American short stories that began on NBC on February 21, 1951, and ended on May 30, 1952. Broadcasting from Hollywood, the series premiered on February 21, 1951, on NBC with an adaptation of "Fifty Grand" by Ernest Hemingway.
The Suit (short story) " The Suit " is a short story by the South African writer Can Themba. [1] It was first published in 1963 in the inaugural issue of The Classic, [2] a South African literary journal founded by Nat Nakasa and Nadine Gordimer. [3] On publication, the story was banned by the apartheid regime. [4] ".
Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [3] located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. [4]