Cirrus@Austlit

'During the Second World War many of Toowoomba's boarding schools were converted to hospitals. The writer Frances Rouse explores the imagined cross-generational relationships between the middle-aged narrator, her younger self as a 60s teenager and a young soldier-patient in the 1940s.

These imaginary observations are set in what was once a hospital ward for wounded soldiers and which has now has become a school gymnasium.'

(Source: ABC Radio National website, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/airplay/s1593353.htm)

'An elderly woman, once married to a famous explorer, seeks to find solace through his journals and selective memory. She believes with the passing of time that she has accepted past tragedies with equanimity. But her younger selves - her optimistic 20s and 30s, her bitter 40s and 50s - will not let her go. She is Elizabeth Cook, wife of Captain James Cook. Her life unfolds through conversations, arguments and confrontations.'

Source: The Australian Script Centre, http://www.ozscript.org/html/collection_no4/coll4_script13.htm
Sighted: 14/02/2006