Eureka Stockade (radio serial)
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 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.