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Issue Details: First known date: 1944-1949... 1944-1949 The Lawsons
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Notes

  • Original subtitle A Story of the Home Front Family was dropped when the war ended.
  • The Lawsons was the prequel to the radio play Blue Hills.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on ABC Radio in 1,299 episodes from 1 February 1944 to 5 February 1949.

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First known date: 1944-1949

Works about this Work

Listening in to The Lawsons: Radio Crosses the Urban-Rural Divide Megan Blair , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth Century Australia 2005; (p. 07.1-19)
'Many scholars have acknowledged the artificiality of the dichotomous 'urban-rural divide'. Few, however, have examined the shared cultural influences and experiences that help to create and perpetuate real and imagined similarities between country and city. This chapter attempts to address this problem with an analysis of The Lawsons, a 1940s radio serial that at once represented, and facilitated an understanding of, rural Australians in terms of alignment with, and likeness to, their urban counterparts.' (p.07.1)
Good Entertainment and Good Family Life: Listener Readings and Responses to Gwen Meredith's `The Lawsons' and `Blue Hills' Michelle Arrow , 1998 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 58 1998; (p. 38-47)
Listening in to The Lawsons: Radio Crosses the Urban-Rural Divide Megan Blair , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth Century Australia 2005; (p. 07.1-19)
'Many scholars have acknowledged the artificiality of the dichotomous 'urban-rural divide'. Few, however, have examined the shared cultural influences and experiences that help to create and perpetuate real and imagined similarities between country and city. This chapter attempts to address this problem with an analysis of The Lawsons, a 1940s radio serial that at once represented, and facilitated an understanding of, rural Australians in terms of alignment with, and likeness to, their urban counterparts.' (p.07.1)
Good Entertainment and Good Family Life: Listener Readings and Responses to Gwen Meredith's `The Lawsons' and `Blue Hills' Michelle Arrow , 1998 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 58 1998; (p. 38-47)
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