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The Little Duck
1925
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Z872808
1925
single work
radio play
'The Little Duck tells of Wally Byrnes, an outback character who discovered a rich copper field but was near to death from starvation and only managed to save himself by catching a little duck and eating it. Determined never to return to the spinifex country, he takes a ship to Sydney to enjoy a life of ease. It is now that he meets a “little duck” of a different type, and the effect of her presence on Wally’s future life is very neatly dramatised in this clever short play.'
Source: 'Radio Plays', ABC Weekly, 28 October 1950, p. 26.
Subjects:
- Country towns,
- Cloncurry, Far North Queensland, Queensland,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
