| Love o' Land | |
| Other Names: | A Cavalcade of Australian History |
| Format: | drama play |
| Runtime: | 60 mins |
| Start Time: | 8pm |
| End Time: | 9pm |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Home Station: | 2FC |
| Syndicates: | ABC |
| Director: | Edmund Barclay |
| First Aired: | [1] |
Love o' Land is a 1934 Australian radio play by Edmund Barclay. It was described as a "cavalcade of Australian history" and involved a family whose adventures coincided with ten scenes in Australian history from 1788 onwards.
The play was a forerunner to Barclay's later serial about Australian history, As Ye Sow.[2]
The original production aired on Australia Day 1934 and was described as "one of the most ambitious and successful experiments in radio technique ever broadcast in Australia."[3]
It was performed again by the ABC on 27 January 1935.
ABC publicity called it an "Australian Cavalcade" adding "The action of the play covers one hundred and fifty years of Australian history, beginning with a pioneer family which landed with Governor Phillip in 1788. Against a background of stirring national events, we witness Samuel Bentley and his family at handgrips with pioneering difficulties and follow them through a succession of varying fortunes. The ghosts of such as Phillip, Hunter, Wentworth, Blaxland, Lawson, Hargraves, and Parkes will cast their shadows over the drama, but the play will point its moral —“that history is not made by the owners of great names, but by people whose names are unhonored and unsung.”
The scenes were: