Grey Face

{{Short description|1940 Australian radio drama}}

{{Infobox radio show

| name = Grey Face

| image = File:Grey_Face_ad.png

| image_size = thumbnail

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| caption = Wireless Weekly 11 May 1940

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| format = serial drama

| runtime = 30 mins{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17687114 |title=BROADCASTING |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=31,942 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=15 May 1940 |accessdate=27 December 2023 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}

| start_time = 8pm

| end_time = 8.30pm

| runtime_note =

| country = Australia

| language = English

| home_station =

| syndicates = ABC

| presenter =

| starring = Peter Finch

| announcer =

| creator =

| writer = Max Afford

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| first_aired = 13 May 1940

| last_aired =1940

| num_series = 1

| num_episodes = 12

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}}

Grey Face is a 1940 Australian radio serial by Max Afford featuring his detective hero, Jeffrey Blackburn.

{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102667376 |title= TO BIRTH OF JEFFERY BLACKBURN |newspaper=The Independent |issue=2445 |date=16 January 1941 |accessdate=27 December 2023 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{Citation

| title=Max Afford and his Plays

| journal=ABC Weekly

| volume = 2 | issue =19 | date = 11 May 1940

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1370253175

| id=nla.obj-1370253175

| access-date=27 December 2023

}}

It starred Peter Finch and Neva Carr Glynn, reprising their roles from The Mysterious Mr. Lynch.{{Citation

| title=New Thriller Serial By Max Afford For National Relay

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

| volume = 35 | issue =18 | date = May 4, 1940

| location=Sydney

| publisher=Wireless Press

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-718461788

| id=nla.obj-718461788

| access-date=27 December 2023

}}

The serial was very popular and was recorded again by the ABC in 1950 starring Nigel Lovell and directed by Frank Harvey.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230472085 |title=Drug addict's struggle back to happiness |newspaper=The Sun |issue=12,681 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=19 September 1950 |accessdate=27 December 2023 |page=23 (LATE FINAL EXTRA) |via=National Library of Australia}}