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Issue Details: First known date: 1952... 1952 Out of this Nettle : A New Radio Play
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'David Noble, son of a wealthy Australian cane farmer, returns from abroad with his English wife, Vinnie. David has told Vinnie of the comfort and luxury of his father's creeper covered home, set in the wide cane fields, but from the moment Vinnie sets foot there and encounters Ann Berriman, capable, matter-of-fact daughter of the neighbouring farm, she realises the bitter, latent antagonism which permeates the old house.

'David's father deliberately contrives a situation which tests the young people's endurance to the utmost; how they face up to it forms the basis for a drama of conflict between human frailty and the relentless natural forces of the land.

'It is a story that excellently catches the mood and colour of the cane lands.'

Source:

'Saturday Playbill: Out of This Nettle', South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus, 21 January 1952, p.2 [feature section supplement].

Production Details

  • First broadcast on Saturday 26 January 1952.

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      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Location: Hanger
      Local Id: H0032
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