How a 'piece of rural propaganda' became 'compulsory listening' for Aussies

Miss Buzzacott (Dorothy Dunkley), the Gordons' nosey parker neighbour, gives Mandy (Pat Crocker) and Trixie (actor unidentified) unwelcome advice on how to make a cake. ( ABC archives )

Blue Hills the ABC radio drama series was broadcast for 27 years across Australia.

September 30 this year marks 50 years since it ended.

Author and playwright Gwen Meredith wrote all 5,975 episodes solo.

It's been 50 years since the iconic theme music for the Blue Hills drama swelled on ABC radio for the last time.

At the time, the show was Australia's longest-running serial radio drama, broadcast from February 1949 until September 1976.

Blue Hills told the stories of the rural families who lived in the fictional town of "Tanimbla".

The cast of the ABC radio drama Blue Hills relaxing on the verandah, from left: Queenie Ashton as Lee Gordon, Nigel Lovell as Bruce, Patricia Crocker as Mandy and Morris Unicomb as Terry. ( ABC archives )

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