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Tue, Oct 24, 1961
In Victorian England a Puritan sergeant and his three men (who are all deserters and tired of fighting) return from a bloody colonial war, to their colliery hometown. They have with them their rifles, a Gatling gun and the corpse of 'Billie' one of their own killed in the fighting. As they arrive In the town, a strike at the colliery is on the point of erupting into violence. The Sergeant promises the Mayor, his men will bring the situation under control and remove the trouble makers. A barmaid further adds to the confusion and things do not go as planned.
Tue, Dec 5, 1961
The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen all coiled up in a silent radio. The old lady is on to all their tricks, and she tells them so repeatedly. She reports them regularly to the police who scoff at her behind her back. The whisperers, however, are only part of her fantasy life. She imagines also that she is a daughter of aristocracy, an heiress waiting for her money to arrive so that she can pay back the nice gentleman at the Welfare Board. Her routine is shattered irrevocably by the return of her thieving son and vagrant husband, a brief fling with stolen money ending dismally in the gutter where the poor prey on the poor.
Tue, Jun 26, 1962
Set in Australia, Peter Jameson is increasingly becoming concerned and rebellious about the questionnaires his company is dishing out designed to test his loyalty. If he does not comply ( and the fact he was a communist in his younger days) will mean there will be limited (if any) employment opportunities for his specialized job in Australia. His old communist friend suggests an opportunity to live and work in China. But Peter realizes he will be facing the same dilemma in a different form over there, so now he must decide whether to be true to his own ideal or someone else's.