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Issue Details: First known date: 1975... 1975 The New Australian Drama
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A series of Australian plays adapted as radio plays for BBC's Radio 3 between November 1975 and January 1976.

The series was introduced by Katharine Brisbane in a piece broadcast on 23 November 1975, and the first play in the series, Peter Kenna's A Hard God, was broadcast on 26 November 1975.

The plays are listed below in broadcast order.

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form y separately published work icon A Hard God United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1976 7952785 1976 single work radio play

'Set in 1946 in a suburb of Sydney the play explores the themes of dislocation and loss through the parallel experiences of two generations of an Irish immigrant family.'

Source: Radio Times, 20 November 1975, p.52.

 United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1976
2
form y separately published work icon How Does Your Garden Grow? United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1976 7952906 1976 single work radio play

'The play explores the interrelationship of three Australian prisoners but, rare in such dramas, retains an affectionate note of optimism: you cannot suppress the search for happiness. even in such a diminishing environment.'

Source: Radio Times, 27 November 1975, p.31.

 United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1976
3
form y separately published work icon Flash Jim Vaux Ron Blair , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1975 7952992 1975 single work radio play

'This rogue's comedy with ballads tells the saga of James Hardy Vaux, an English petty thief who was three times transported to New South Wales. Highly successful in Australia, this play gives a vivid picture of the early history of a continent settled by the inmates of the prisons of Hogarth's London.'

Source: Radio Times, 4 December 1975, p.31.

 United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1975
4
form y separately published work icon A Stretch of the Imagination United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1976 7953168 1976 single work radio play

'A lonely old man far outback in the desert, reliving his past by a stretch of the imagination.'

Source: Radio Times, 8 January 1976, p.27.

 United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1976
5
form y separately published work icon The Chapel Perilous; or, the Perilous Adventures of Sally Banner Dorothy Hewett , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1976 7953221 1976 single work radio play

A radio adaptation of Dorothy Hewett's stage play.

 United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1976
6
form y separately published work icon The Front Room Boys United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1976 7953379 1976 single work radio play

'The story of a year in an Australian office, month by month.'

Source: Radio Times, 22 January 1976, p.25.

 United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1976

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