Bill Eldridge

 The director was Bill Eldridge, an actor and radio producer. He was an amateur poet too. Eldridge was British - he joined the BBC in 1939, went into the services in 1941, rejoined the BBC in 1944.  He worked in Singapore then joined the ABC in 1947. (The link is to a 1947 article on Eldridge). He directed some early television. In ABC Weekly he often appeared in photos gesticulating. He moved to Perth.

1948 moved in commercial drama

Radio: Crossroads of Life (1948), To Town on Two Pianos (1953), Fanfare (1956)

*Roundabout (1957)

*Camera Club (1957)

*Fair Passenger (1957)

*The Rose and Crown (1963) (in Perth) 

Neil Hutchison said in 1958 that he "has shown some ability though is perhaps in some respects a doubtful quality."

NAA William Sterling


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