Chris Gardner

 English housewife. real name Marjorie Gardner. Lived at Woody Point.

She had moved from England to Australia eight years before Dark Under the Sun. Was living in Woody Point. She started writing when briefly bed-ridden due to a slipped disc then became more serious about it when she joined a Brisbane radio group in 1956. Dark Under the Sun was her first TV play.

*Dec 1958 - Pub at Pelican Creek commended in General Motors Theatre Award 

*1959 short story in Coast to Coast see here

* Dark Under the Sun (28 March 1960) - TV play

*1961 Pub at Pelican Creek performed

*April 1962 - House of Mancello TV play 

*1963 House of Mancello performed on radio

*Dec 1964 - A Private Island 

*May 1965 - A Private Island radio play

*Oct 1968 Who's Perfect - radio play see here

*Feb 1974 To Travel Hopefully - radio play see here

*Sept 1980 A Thing of Wonder radip play see ere