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