| Sabotage | |
| Format: | drama play |
| Runtime: | 60 mins |
| Start Time: | 8pm |
| End Time: | 9pm |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Presenter: | ABC |
| Director: | John Cairns |
| First Aired: | 4 December 1940 |
Sabotage is a 1940 Australian radio play by is a radio play by Catherine Shepherd. It imagines what it might be like to turn into a fifth column in Australia.
Leslie Rees called it a play that "predicates a tragedy which, having happened to others in Holland, Norway and elsewhere, might easily happen to persons in our own midst."
The play was performed again in 1941.
A copy of the play is at the Fryer Library.[1]
Wireless Weekly called it "perhaps the most penetrating piece of drama she [Catherine Shepherd] has given radio to date" and "shows with valuable clarity the insidious appeal of Nazi concepts to the man who is tired of democracy’s cumbersome working."
Richard Gale, a struggling intellectual, becomes attracted to Nazism during the Depression. He agrees to work for the Nazi Party.