form y separately published work icon Golden Legacy single work   radio play  
Issue Details: First known date: 1947... 1947 Golden Legacy
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Described as a prize-winning radio play based on the life of William Farrer, Golden Legacy was adapted for film as Strong Is the Seed.

The prize that the script is said to have won has not been traced thus far, and neither have any contemporary radio broadcasts of the play.

Further Reading

'Interesting People', Australian Women's Weekly, 22 November 1947, p.10.

'Strong Is the Seed', Australian Women's Weekly, 8 May 1948, p.26.

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Strong Is the Seed The Farrer Story Ru Pullan , ( dir. Arthur Greville Collins ) Australia : Collins Productions , 1949 7819815 1949 single work film/TV

A dramatised account of William Farrer's struggle to produce a rust-resistant strain of wheat.

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