Radio play by Barbara Vernon. Done by ABC and BBC. Seemed to be a natural for television.
Plot
Jim Emerson's property is being divided up into a soldier settlement scheme. He doesn't get upset until someone tries to chop down his loquat tree. He is disappointed his son has no interest in the block. Gossip links him with Lucia, a young migrant housekeeper. A fruit fly inspector orders him to chop down a tree that has shaded his family for generations. He blames it on the soldier settlers and their trees.
Production
Debuted Nov 1961 with Moral Powell and Delia Williams see here.
Repeated in 1962,, 1965. Done again in 1970.
The BBC did it in 1964.
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