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Described in most radio programme guides as 'an Australian saga,' the Courier Mail (Brisbane) records that the play 'reviews the influences that have affected the development and the progress of the continent for a century and a half" (4 January 1937, p.15).
Known episode titles are:
- 1. Seed Time
- 2. Wavering
- 3. Crossing the Rubicon
- 4. Tillage
- 5. The First Australians
- 6. The Golden Fleece
- 7. Govenor Bligh
- 8. Over the Mountains
- 9. Broadacres
- 10. Gilbert the Second
- 11. Reap in Joy
- 12.
- 13. Evensong
- 14. The New Era
- 15. The Gold Rush
- 16. The Eureka Stockade
- 17. Ploughshares into Scales
- 18. Sydney-Siders
- 19.
- 20. Town and Country / or Black Wednesday
- 21. Reaping Iniquity
- 22. Many Waters
- 23. The Rift
- 24. Black Wednesday
- 25. The Last of the Old
- 26.
- 27.
- 28.
- 29. Prelude to War
Notes
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Contents indexed selectively.
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Episode 16, The Eureka Stockade was chosen as the opening play broadcast during the Australian Broadcasting Commission's 1937 Radio Drama Week.
Production Details
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Produced and broadcast on relay from Radio Station 2FC (Sydney) in 36 episodes, beginning 4 January 1936. The series was produced by Lawrence H. Cecil, with music arranged by Howard Carr.
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16form y
The Eureka Stockade
Sydney
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ABC Radio
,
1933
9747497
1933
single work
radio play
historical fiction
'A self-contained historical chronicle of a great national event' ('Radio-Drama Week,' p.3), Barclay approaches the rebellion from the perspective of Gilbert Teal, and looks at the consequences and the effect it had on both him and his family ('Radio Drama Week : Bright Sessions," p.8.)
Sydney : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1937
