| The Shadow of Sam Poo | |
| Format: | drama play |
| Runtime: | 30 mins[1] |
| Start Time: | 9.03pm |
| End Time: | 9.33pm |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Home Station: | 2BL |
| Syndicates: | ABC |
The Shadow of Sam Poo is a 1930 Australian radio play about bushranger Sam Poo by James J. Donnelly. It was the first in a series of plays about bushrangers.[2] The play was a very rare dramatisation of a Chinese Australia for the time. It was also one of the first Australian radio dramas, which gathered fame quickly
The play aired in March 1930 on the ABC and went for 30 minutes.
"Many old-time Australians who are well versed in the lore of the Australian bushranging days will remember the murder of Mounted Constable Ward, of Coonabarabran Station and the short-lived rampage of Sam Poo, the only Chinese bushranger. The drama which has been built around this unique incident is embellished With a prelude set in China, and is particularly appealing in the delacacy and death of Constable Ward is presented. It is the first of four short plays which will deal with many incidents in this interesting stage of Australia's development."[3]