Eureka Stockade (radio serial)
 Wireless Weekly 17 Nov 1933 | |
| Genre | drama play |
|---|---|
| Running time | 60 mins[1] (8:00 pm – 9:00 pm) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | 2FC |
| Written by | Edmund Barclay |
| Directed by | Edmund Barclay |
| Recording studio | Sydney |
| Original release | 21 November 1933[2] |
Eureka Stockade is a 1933 Australian radio play by Edmund Barclay about the Eureka Rebellion. It was one of the first radio scripts by Barclay who went on to become arguably Australia's leading radio writer.[3]
The 1933 production was directed by Barclay himself and starred John Pickard as Peter Lalor.[4][5]
It was called a "remarkably successful historical drama".[6]
Other reviews were very positive. The Sun stated:
Barclay has the flair for historic poems; and, with him, there is a manly grasp of nettles that shows his discrimination and sensibility... The effects were quite remark ably well done. The stormy preliminary meeting... and the subsequent attack and capture of the stockade, were breathlessly convincing... A fine, half-barbaric, wholly triumphant, march played away this vision of the past. The hour had flown by — Bravo, Edmund Barclay.[7]
Barclay later wrote an episode on the rebellion in his series As Ye Sow.[8] He also depicted it in his adaptation of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.
Cast[edit]
- John Pickard as Peter Lalor
- Bert Barton as Frederick Vern
- Victor Goulet as Raffaello Carboni
- James Stanley as Henry Ross
- John Bedouin as James Stanley
- Vivian Edwards as Charles Hotham
- Ronald Mose as Captain
- Edmund Butterworth as Captain Wise
- Charles Wheeler as Trooper Garvey
- Winifred Green as Alicia Dunn
References[edit]
- ^ "BROADCASTING FOR TO-DAY". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. 3, no. 239. New South Wales, Australia. 21 November 1933. p. 7. Retrieved 25 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "TWO PLAYS BY BARRIE". The Newcastle Sun. No. 4974. New South Wales, Australia. 18 November 1933. p. 2. Retrieved 25 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Marion Consandine, 'Barclay, Edmund Piers (Teddy) (1898–1961)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barclay-edmund-piers-teddy-9425/text16569, published first in hardcopy 1993, accessed online 31 August 2023.
- ^ "Listen In To-Night For". The Sun. No. 7455. New South Wales, Australia. 21 November 1933. p. 18 (Final Extra). Retrieved 31 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (November 17, 1933), "Tuesday November 21", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 22 (20), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-720828891, retrieved 31 August 2023 – via Trove
- ^ "Honor in His Own Country". The Sun. No. 1602. New South Wales, Australia. 10 December 1933. p. 48. Retrieved 31 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "From the Lighter-Side Layer". The Sun. No. 7456. New South Wales, Australia. 22 November 1933. p. 15 (Final Extra). Retrieved 31 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Australian Radio Drama Week". The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate. Vol. LXVII, no. 4326. New South Wales, Australia. 15 April 1937. p. 10. Retrieved 31 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.