The Flying Swan (radio play)
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The Flying Swan is a 1939 Australian radio play by Catherine Shepherd. It told the story of Hans Christian Andersen.[1] The play was one of Shepherd's major works.[2]
The play was her fourth for the ABC.[3]
The play was popular and was produced again in 1941, 1943, 1945 and 1949.[4]
The play was produced in Canada. Its success prompted Shepherd to write a biographical play about John Bunyan, The Valiant Tinker.[5][6]
According to Leslie Rees, with this play, "Shepherd took the problem of what shall a man write about, how shall he fix on his worthy and legitimate material. Hans Andersen, after many struggles, almost miraculously finds his true mission in writing fairy-stories based on his own poetically infused early experience."[7]