{{Short description|It was great}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox radio show | name = Heads I Lose | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | other_names = | format = drama play | runtime = 60 mins | start_time = 8 pm | end_time = 9 pm | runtime_note = | country = Australia | language = English | home_station = 2BL | syndicates = | writer = Edmund Barclay | director = Lawrence H. Cecil | narrated = | record_location = | first_aired = {{Start date|1935|08|05}} | other_theme = | end_theme = | sponsor = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | podcast = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }}
'''''Heads I Lose''''' is a 1935 Australian radio play by Edmund Barclay. It was called "an original problem play".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86564051 |title=BROADCASTING. |newspaper=The Advocate (Australia) |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=18 October 1935 |accessdate=8 February 2024 |page=10 (DAILY) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Australasian Radio Relay League. | title=WEDNESDAY AUGUST 5 | journal=The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal | date=July 31, 1936 | location=Sydney | publisher=Wireless Press | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-718285556 | access-date=8 February 2024 | via=Trove }}</ref>
The play was produced again in 1936.
==Premise== "The theme of the play is the choice of two alternatives which face a young doctor, Martin Craig. Each alternative Involves not only his own happiness, but that of other people, and Craig decides finally the question by the toss of a coin. The resulting drama is worked out cleverly, and the action is then chang ed to show what would have happened if the coin had fallen the other way."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244792864 |title=TONIGHT'S BROADCASTING -- |newspaper=The Herald |issue=18,229 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=18 October 1935 |accessdate=8 February 2024 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/work/1340 Heads I Lose] at Ausstage
Category:1935 Australian radio dramas Category:Radio plays by Edmund Barclay Category:1936 Australian radio dramas