Running time | 60 mins [1] (8:00 pm – 9:00 pm) |
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Country of origin | Australian |
Language(s) | English |
Syndicates | ABC |
Starring | Bebe Scott |
Written by | Rex Rienits |
Directed by | Charles Wheeler [2] |
Original release | 22 April 1945 [3] |
Margaret Catchpole is a 1945 Australian radio drama by Rex Rienits about Margaret Catchpole. [4] [5] It was one of several dramatisations of Australian historical figures by Rienits. [6]
Plays on Australian subjects were relatively rare on Australian radio at the time and Margaret Catchpole was listed by Leslie Rees as among the most notable of the 1940s. [7]
The play was repeated later in 1945 [8] and was re-recorded in 1958. [9] One listener called it one of the best plays of 1945. [10]
Catchpole's life was also dramatised by the ABC in 1950 as an episode of Famous Women [11] and she was the subject of a "talks" episode in 1953. [12]
According to the ABC Weekly, it told "the story of a strong-minded, attractive English girl who was sent out to New South Wales early in the nineteenth century and who aroused public interest by rejecting the offer of marriage made by a well-set-up free settler of good character. Why Margaret Catchpole was transported and why she refused marriage are unfolded in this chronicle play which holds its suspense to the end." [13]
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Running time | 60 mins [1] (8:00 pm – 9:00 pm) |
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Country of origin | Australian |
Language(s) | English |
Syndicates | ABC |
Starring | Bebe Scott |
Written by | Rex Rienits |
Directed by | Charles Wheeler [2] |
Original release | 22 April 1945 [3] |
Margaret Catchpole is a 1945 Australian radio drama by Rex Rienits about Margaret Catchpole. [4] [5] It was one of several dramatisations of Australian historical figures by Rienits. [6]
Plays on Australian subjects were relatively rare on Australian radio at the time and Margaret Catchpole was listed by Leslie Rees as among the most notable of the 1940s. [7]
The play was repeated later in 1945 [8] and was re-recorded in 1958. [9] One listener called it one of the best plays of 1945. [10]
Catchpole's life was also dramatised by the ABC in 1950 as an episode of Famous Women [11] and she was the subject of a "talks" episode in 1953. [12]
According to the ABC Weekly, it told "the story of a strong-minded, attractive English girl who was sent out to New South Wales early in the nineteenth century and who aroused public interest by rejecting the offer of marriage made by a well-set-up free settler of good character. Why Margaret Catchpole was transported and why she refused marriage are unfolded in this chronicle play which holds its suspense to the end." [13]
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