21st Precinct
Drama
Drama
My Name Is Adam Kane.
My Name Is Adam Kane gives its secret agent a confident voice and a reason to distrust appearances. An apparently straightforward assignment can become more complicated as loyalties change and a useful conversation reveals a dangerous purpose. A British fictional agent interpreted through South African radio production.
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My Name Is Adam Kane: Programme Guide.
Adam Kane has the confidence of an experienced agent and good reason to question every useful contact. His assignments turn information, persuasion and concealed loyalties into the working tools of an espionage adventure.
Broadcast history.
The South African radio production belongs to the 1970s and early 1980s. Its British intelligence setting is fictional geography, not evidence that the programme was a BBC production.
Cast and creative team.
Dale Cutts wrote the series, and Don McCorkindale played Kane. McCorkindale’s performance history identifies the character as an East London agent in the tradition of screen spy Harry Palmer. Later cast and production credits require matching to particular recordings.
Where to begin.
The Dry Cleaner · The Devil You Don't Know
These available recordings offer an introduction to this collection. Their current publication dates are separate from historical broadcast dates.
An interesting detail.
A spy’s fictional British nationality is separate from the country where actors and producers made the programme. That distinction helps place the series alongside South Africa’s other English-language radio drama.
Listening appeal.
Try The Dry Cleaner or The Devil You Don’t Know for an available mission. Listen for how the agent tests an explanation before accepting the person offering it.
Collection and date notes.
HRV lists 69 public recordings. The sixty-nine records are selected missions; exact date and cast details should be checked against each edition. Current podcast dates describe later archive publication, separately from original broadcast dates.
Sources.
Choose your next episode.
69 public recordings in this programme. Catalogue order is not a verified original broadcast chronology.
69 episodes available.
The Dry Cleaner
21:36Tailspin
25:43S A The Immigrant
25:04S A Old Aquaintance
25:39The Cuckoo
28:09S A The Silencer
25:54S A Tail Spin
25:42S A Cherry Blossom
25:32The Deep Freeze War
23:22Wall Street
22:30The Immigrant
25:04The Happy Loser
19:57The Calling Card
22:52Iron Road
25:32Strong Arm
22:31Moonshine
24:20A Healthy Way To Die
24:50S A The Iron Road
25:32Lochinvar
23:56S A Wall Street
22:36Dressed To Kill
25:19First Blood
20:37S A Lochinvar
24:02A Bird In The Hand
21:47Eagle One
23:50S A Strong Arm
22:31S A Outside Straight
24:26S A The Calling Card
22:50Flying Bomb
25:36Outside Straight
24:51Debt For A Ducat
21:26Come Fly With Me
26:53S A Debt For A Ducat
21:26Cherry Blossom
25:32S A First Blood
20:43Poppy Day
25:49The Silencer
25:54Old Acquaintance
25:39S A Moonshine
24:20Murder Passage
25:50Brother Spy
20:27How The Other Half
24:43Death Dance
25:00S A Desert Flower
22:59Desert Flower
23:03S A Brother Spy
20:33Love Thy Neighbor
27:29House Party
25:31S A House Party
25:31S A Nightshade
21:03Nightshade
21:03S A The Avery
29:16The Aviary
29:16Body Snatch
23:10S A Body Snatch
23:10The Silver Doctor
24:33Soundwave
24:26S A Soundwave
24:26Greek Fire
23:38S A Greek Fire
23:38Bird Of Passage
23:10
Questions about My Name Is Adam Kane.
Is Kane’s British nationality proof of a BBC production?
No. The programme was produced in South Africa.
Who is the independently documented leading performer?
Don McCorkindale is identified in performance histories as Adam Kane.
