The run
- Network
- Australia
- Years active
- 1950–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 52
- Genre
- drama
White Coolies was an Australian radio serial dramatised from the wartime diary of Betty Jeffrey, an Australian Army nursing sister interned in Sumatra after the fall of Singapore. Her book of the same name was a post-war bestseller in Australia. Australian copyright in sound recordings of this period has expired; the transfers stream from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air, with 5 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. White Coolies - Ep 01 · Date unknown
- 2. White Coolies - Ep 05 · Date unknown
- 3. White Coolies - Ep 09 · Date unknown
White Coolies - Ep 01
Date unknown · 26 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “white-coolies-ep-22_202205”.
White Coolies - Ep 05
Date unknown · 25 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “white-coolies-ep-22_202205”.
White Coolies - Ep 09
Date unknown · 25 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “white-coolies-ep-22_202205”.
White Coolies - Ep 13
Date unknown · 26 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “white-coolies-ep-22_202205”.
White Coolies - Ep 17
Date unknown · 25 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “white-coolies-ep-22_202205”.
White Coolies - Ep 21
Date unknown · 26 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “white-coolies-ep-22_202205”.
White Coolies - Ep 25
Date unknown · 26 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “white-coolies-ep-22_202205”.
White Coolies - Ep 29
Date unknown · 24 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “white-coolies-ep-22_202205”.
Also on Australia
Australia in 1950–1954
Other series the network carried while White Coolies was on the air.
Same seasons
drama on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
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