 Lux Radio Theatre, in South Africa, wrote to Afford in 1954 expressing their pleasure at his play "Consulting Room", and asked him for more of his radio plays.The "Blackburn" serials found such popularity in Australia that 2UE decided to experiment with the structure of radio serials.They changed the typical structure of half an hour once a week, to 12-minute episodes four nights per week, and found listeners preferred not having to wait a whole week for the next instalment.