Mingled Yarn Explained

Mingled Yarn
Format:	drama play
Runtime:	60 mins
Start Time:	9.15pm
End Time:	10.15pm
Country:	Australia
Language:	English
Home Station:	4QG
Syndicates:	ABC
Record Location:	Brisbane

Mingled Yarn is a 1937 Australian radio play by Edmund Barclay about the life of William Shakespeare. It was broadcast on the ABC for Australian Drama Week.^{[1] [2]}

It aired on the anniversary of Shakespeare's birthday.^[3]

Leslie Rees later wrote "Edmund Barclay wrote what seemed to me only the skeleton or prologue to an excellent study of the craftsman."

Premise

A series of imaginary incidents in the life of William Shakespeare starting in 1588 with Shakespeare as a young man and ending with him in retirement at Stratford on Avon being visited by his friend, Ben Jonson.

Notes and References

1. News: Week of Australian Drama Broadcasts . . 1138 . Queensland, Australia . 24 April 1937 . 8 September 2023 . 16 . National Library of Australia.
2. News: Broadcasts of Australian Plays. . . 30,978 . New South Wales, Australia . 16 April 1937 . 8 September 2023 . 5 . National Library of Australia.
3. News: Australian Radio Drama Week . . LXVII . 4326 . New South Wales, Australia . 15 April 1937 . 8 September 2023 . 10 . National Library of Australia.