As reported by radioinfo, Adelaide-based radio theatre company, Insight Presents, sought new half-hour radio play scripts for their inaugural radio script competition.

Forty-seven scripts were entered, narrowed to seven finalists and, eventually, two winners whose work will be performed and recorded before a live audience.

Julie Thomson, from Naracoorte in regional South Australia scored with her rural comedy, “Down the Road”, set in the 1950s in the lead up to a disastrous church fete.

From Ascot Vale, John Papadatos also found success with his outlandish, futuristic farce called “Time’s Justice”, about a mobile court of the future that accidentally mistakes dull Mr Smith from Earth for a notorious galactic gangster.

The time has now come for the winning comedies of the national radio script competition to premiere on the 15th of July

Full details of the two comedies can be found on the website at www.insightpresents.com/next.htm. There will be two performances – 2pm and 7pm – at the Reynella Memorial Hall, in Old Reynella.