Eureka Stockade (radio serial) explained
| Eureka Stockade |
| Format: | drama play |
| Runtime: | 60 mins[1] |
| Start Time: | 8pm |
| End Time: | 9pm |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Home Station: | 2FC |
| Director: | Edmund Barclay |
| Record Location: | Sydney |
| First Aired: | 21 November 1933[2] |
Eureka Stockade is a 1933 Australian radio play by Edmund Barclay about the Eureka Rebellion. It was one of the first radio scripts by Barclay who went on to become arguably Australia's leading radio writer.[3]
The 1933 production was directed by Barclay himself and starred John Pickard as Peter Lalor.[4]
It was called a "remarkably successful historical drama".[5]
Other reviews were very positive. The Sun stated:
Barclay has the flair for historic poems; and, with him, there is a manly grasp of nettles that shows his discrimination and sensibility... The effects were quite remark ably well done. The stormy preliminary meeting... and the subsequent attack and capture of the stockade, were breathlessly convincing... A fine, half-barbaric, wholly triumphant, march played away this vision of the past. The hour had flown by — Bravo, Edmund Barclay.[6]
Barclay later wrote an episode on the rebellion in his series
As Ye Sow.
[7] He also depicted it in his adaptation of
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.
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Notes and References
- News: BROADCASTING FOR TO-DAY . . 3 . 239 . New South Wales, Australia . 21 November 1933 . 25 September 2023 . 7 . National Library of Australia.
- News: TWO PLAYS BY BARRIE . . 4974 . New South Wales, Australia . 18 November 1933 . 25 September 2023 . 2 . National Library of Australia.
- Marion Consandine, 'Barclay, Edmund Piers (Teddy) (1898–1961)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barclay-edmund-piers-teddy-9425/text16569, published first in hardcopy 1993, accessed online 31 August 2023.
- News: Listen In To-Night For . . 7455 . New South Wales, Australia . 21 November 1933 . 31 August 2023 . 18 (Final Extra) . National Library of Australia.
- News: Honor in His Own Country . . 1602 . New South Wales, Australia . 10 December 1933 . 31 August 2023 . 48 . National Library of Australia.
- News: From the Lighter-Side Layer . . 7456 . New South Wales, Australia . 22 November 1933 . 31 August 2023 . 15 (Final Extra) . National Library of Australia.
- News: Australian Radio Drama Week . . LXVII . 4326 . New South Wales, Australia . 15 April 1937 . 31 August 2023 . 10 . National Library of Australia.
