With Wings as Eagles
| Genre | verse drama |
|---|---|
| Running time | 60mins[1] (10:00 pm – 11:00 pm) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | 2BL |
| Syndicates | ABC |
| Written by | Edmund Barclay Joy Hollyer |
| Directed by | Lawrence H. Cecil |
| Original release | June 24, 1943[2] |
With Wings as Eagles is a 1943 Australian radio play verse drama by Edmund Barclay and Joy Hollyer about three airmen in World War Two.
It was submitted to the ABC as part of the ABC's 1943 verse drama competition. The play was considered by the Judges one of the four best in the competition, which was won by The Golden Lover.[3][4]
It was broadcast by the ABC as part of a series of ten verse dramas on radio. The others were The Real Betrayal, We're Going Through, It Has Happened Before, Mined Gold, Succubus, The Unmapped Lands, Brief Apocalypse, Fear and Richard Bracken-Farmer.[5]
Premise
[edit]According to ABC Weekly, "as might be expected from authors who have had many such successes, Mr. Barclay and Miss Hollyer give us a play in which the sense of what 'goes' in radio drama is strong. It is a play of today, a play dedicated to the heroic airmen who keep the enemy from our door, who 'mount up with wings as eagles.' The authors take three airmen — an Australian, a Cockney, and a scion of England's blue blood—tracing their comradeship and their fortunes in the war of the air."[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "On the Air". The Herald. No. 20, 625. Victoria, Australia. 24 June 1943. p. 10. Retrieved 8 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Australian Broadcasting Commission. (19 June 1943), "Thursday, June 24", ABC Weekly, 5 (25), Sydney: ABC, nla.obj-1354370548, retrieved 8 September 2023 – via Trove
- ^ ""Onlooker" Looks Into a "Magic Mirror"". Advocate. Vol. LXXVI, no. 4665. Victoria, Australia. 21 January 1943. p. 9. Retrieved 8 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Romantic Comedy In Verse", ABC weekly, Sydney, 23 January 1943, retrieved 1 February 2024 – via Trove
- ^ "Ten new verse plays", ABC weekly, Sydney, 20 March 1943, nla.obj-1353953510, retrieved 1 February 2024 – via Trove
- ^ Australian Broadcasting Commission. (19 June 1943), "Coming on the air", ABC Weekly, 5 (25), Sydney: ABC, nla.obj-1354367777, retrieved 8 September 2023 – via Trove
External links
[edit]- With Wings as Eagles at Ausstage