Silver Ridge is a 1954 Australian adventure radio series by Max Afford.

But it fell down completely when characters like railway fettlers, police constables, and hotel hands came on the scene.

I found the disconcerting accents of these characters sufficient to detract from the main action of the play.

"[6] The Sydney Morning Herald thought Afford "does not appear to have learned... that there is a germane difference between the credibility of a story and the credulity of an audience.

has an eye on this feature as giving a representation of part of Australia—his dialogue is so crammed with what passes for typical Australian jargon that it sounds embarrassingly theatrical and self-conscious.