A Cat Across Their Path

{{Short description|1939 Australian radio play by Max Afford}}

{{Use Australian English|date=February 2024}}

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| format = drama play

| runtime = 60 mins

| start_time = 8.30pm

| end_time = 9.30pm

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| country = Australia

| language = English

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| writer = Max Afford

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| first_aired = {{Start date|1939|12|06}}

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A Cat Across Their Path is a 1939 Australian radio play by Max Afford.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article142874548 |title=WRITE TOUGH—BUT AREN'T |newspaper=The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=23 January 1940 |accessdate=27 February 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The play was about Monica Sefton, who was the lead character in Afford's later Lady in Danger. Many other aspects of that play appear in A Cat Across Their Path including a cat and Monica's husband.{{Citation

| title=WEDNESDAY .. DEC. 6

| journal=The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal

| date=December 2, 1939

| location=Sydney

| publisher=Wireless Press

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-729695262

| id=nla.obj-729695262

| access-date=28 February 2024

| via=Trove

}}

The play was produced for radio again in 1940{{Citation

| title=TUESDAY —March 12

| journal=ABC Weekly

| date=9 March 1940

| location=Sydney

| publisher=ABC

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1326307942

| id=nla.obj-1326307942

| access-date=28 February 2024

| via=Trove

}} and 1951.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18491115 |title=This Trend To "Highbrow " |newspaper=The Sunday Herald (Sydney) |issue=141 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=7 October 1951 |accessdate=27 February 2024 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{Citation

| title=RADIO PLAYS for NEXT WEEK A.B.C.

| journal=ABC Weekly

| date=6 October 1951

| location=Sydney

| publisher=ABC

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1549769642

| id=nla.obj-1549769642

| access-date=28 February 2024

| via=Trove

}}

Reviewing the 1939 production, Wireless Weekly said the play was "disappointing. This crime drama fades out in a bloom of tenderness which is uncalled for and rather hard to bear... it is rather less plausible than usual, and lapses periodically into domestic moments which interrupt the story without diverting the listener from its obvious weaknesses."{{Citation

| title=JONATHAN LISTENS TO PLAYS

| journal=The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal

| date=December 16, 1939

| location=Sydney

| publisher=Wireless Press

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-729719056

| id=nla.obj-729719056

| access-date=27 February 2024

| via=Trove

}}