Hester Siding Explained

Hester Siding
Format:drama play
Country:Australia
Language:English
Syndicates:ABC
First Aired:1937

Hester Siding is a 1937 Australian radio play by Alexander Turner. It was one of Turner's most acclaimed works.

The play was published in a collection of Turner's works in 1937, the first collection of plays published by a Western Australian author.[1]

The play aired on the ABC as part of Australian drama week. There were new productions of it in 1941.

Leslie Rees called it "in its own slight and delicate was a masterpiece of emotional understatement".

The play sold to New Zealand.[2]

Premise

A couple move to Western Australia. The wife dies while on holiday.[3]

Notes and References

  1. News: New Publications. . . 53 . 16,007 . Western Australia . 16 October 1937 . 7 September 2023 . 4 . National Library of Australia.
  2. News: Australian radio plays . . 14 August 1939 . 23 January 2024 . 2 . National Library of Australia.
  3. News: "Hester Siding." . . 53 . 15,862 . Western Australia . 29 April 1937 . 7 September 2023 . 21 . National Library of Australia.