Described in contemporary radio guides as 'a romantic comedy of other days.'
'Richard Lane, who wrote 'Pointless Design,' now offers another radio play dealing with the life of actors and radio people in Sydney. The main interest of 'The Remittance Man' is its study of an old actor who, in spite of triumphs on the London stage many years previously, cannot get work on the stage or in radio. He is reduced to making advertisement records for a living and finally cannot even net that kind of commission.'
Source:
'June Programme in Full Swing', Sunday Mail, 11 June 1939, p.29.
'West Australian authorship Will be represented by Alexander Turner's Conglomerate, a dramatic descriptive story of life on the hard, hot, dusty West Australian goldfield. The commonplace and the picturesque are merged In an arresting pattern. Turner writes of what he knows. 'Gold, beer, heat, wool,machinery, corrugated iron, stones, mail trucks - there's your background tor Murchison' (Leslie Rees, 'We Shall Have Drama : Introducing Radio Drama Week,' p.6).
Described as 'a dramatic incident from the earliest white history of New South Wales.' (See Riverine Herald below.)
Based on the life of the poet and painter Wainewright transported to Australia for forgery in 1837.
