form y separately published work icon As Ye Sow : An Australian Saga series - publisher   radio play  
First known date: 1937 Issue Details: First known date: 1937... 1937 As Ye Sow : An Australian Saga
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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

  • Contents indexed selectively.
  • Episode 16, The Eureka Stockade was chosen as the opening play broadcast during the Australian Broadcasting Commission's 1937 Radio Drama Week.

Production Details

  • 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.

Includes

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form y separately published work icon The Eureka Stockade Edmund Barclay , Sydney : 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

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1937 .
      Extent: 14, 7 leavesp.
      Description: Typescript (duplicated).
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • Only episodes 1 and 2 of the radio serial held

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Location: hanger Collection
      Local Id: H0101
Last amended 29 Jul 2016 13:47:55
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