The Bombora is a 1957 Australian radio play by Coral Lansbury. It was very highly regarded. The ABC production was broadcast on the BBC in 1958. It was one of the first ABC productions for this to happen. The play was also broadcast in New Zealand.

It was first produced in 1957, then produced again in 1958 and 1962.

Lansbury called it a "thriller" adding "Leslie Rees and I decided there'd been enough about Scotland Yard and the FBI, we'd have an Australian thriller for a change."

Premise
A drama set in a pearling town. Glen Baker, an American, visits the coast with his wife who was once a barmaid in the town. Baker is investigating the wreck of a Japanese pearling ship which sunk in 1941, appearently with some pearls aborad. When the local tide is low and the "bombora", or whirlpool, is quiet for a few hours, can the ship be approached.

References

1950s Australian radio dramas