Stockade (play)

Stockade is a 1942 radio play by Richard Lane who regarded it as one of his most significant works. It is a verse drama about the Eureka Rebellion. It tells the story though Bridget Shannahan who was on Bakery during the Stockade period. She was a real person, grandmother to Lane's then-wife.[1][2]

Stockade
Genreverse drama
Running time60 mins
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
SyndicatesABC
Written byRichard Lane
Original release1942

It aired in 1942. Wireless Weekly called it "an artistic success".[3] Other views were also positive.[4]

The play was produced again in 1943,[5] 1947[6][7] and in 1950.[8]

References
  1. "IT HAPPENED THIS WEEK". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. III, no. 37. New South Wales, Australia. 26 July 1942. p. 8. Retrieved 24 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. "The "A.B.C. Weekly" and the "Listener-in"". Advocate. Vol. LXXV, no. 4641. Victoria, Australia. 30 July 1942. p. 9. Retrieved 24 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. Australasian Radio Relay League., "Miners' Fight", The wireless weekly : the hundred per cent Australian radio journal, Sydney: Wireless Press (Vol. 37 No. 30 (August 1, 1942)), nla.obj-722517197, retrieved 24 August 2023 – via Trove
  4. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (1939), "Coming on the Air", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC (Vol. 4 No. 30 (25 July 1942)), nla.obj-1327165973, retrieved 24 August 2023 – via Trove
  5. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (1939), "Lane's Eureka", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC (Vol. 5 No. 48 (27 November 1943)), nla.obj-1316401318, retrieved 24 August 2023 – via Trove
  6. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (1939), "A.B.C. Ploy-lovers' Guide", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC (Vol. 9 No. 40 (4 October 1947)), nla.obj-1427012487, retrieved 24 August 2023 – via Trove
  7. ""EUREKA STOCKADE" IN SERMON FORM". Smith's Weekly. Vol. XXIX, no. 34. New South Wales, Australia. 18 October 1947. p. 20. Retrieved 24 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (1939), ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC, nla.obj-1405420288, retrieved 24 August 2023 – via Trove
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