AustLit

'The story deals with a Queensland family living in a Brisbane suburb. The action extends over a generation and tells of a domestic crisis due to the return of the mother's childhood lover, now a writer, and one of the daughters, now a successful ballerina.'

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'Radio Notes', Manilla Express, 19 July 1940, p.1.

'This light comedy for radio by Charles Porter tells of a young Australian whose practical jokes are designed to prick the bubble of pretence "to show how foolish it is to admire a man for what he seems to hold in the world and not for what he really is," Unfortunately his father, sometimes the victim of these practical jokes, cannot be persuaded to accept them at their true moral value, and throws the nonchalant Roger out of the family home "until he returns to his senses." And the comedy in its flippant way, sketches in with dry pencil lines Roger's subsequent adventures as a tramp and as a very unconventional suitor, for the hand of a squatter's daughter.'

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'A.B.C. Alternative Programme', Border Watch, 25 August 1942, p.6. (Blurb refers to a later broadcast.)

'A new play by Charles Porter, The Footsteps After, [gives the listener] an Idea of the experimental activity of latter-day A.B.C. dramatists. The Footsteps After, like the recently-produced Play Without a Name, has an emotional suppression and understanding of human motives, which are in remarkable harmony with the fluid quality of Mr. Porter's radio technique ('Australian Radio Drama Week : Broadcasting Commission Launches Play Series,' p. 6).