AustLit

Notes from the preface to a printed edition, on the title page.

Reproduced solely for use by Service personnel.

Reproduced typescript. '228229-6378/45.'

Numerous reprints between 1954 and 1980.

Author's Foreword: A radio play is not essentially different from any other kind of play....it is, in its simplest terms, a struggle: usually of man against man; in The Fire on the Snow essentially of man against snow, the spirit of man against snow, the spirit of man against all that conspires to defeat him....I use the Narrator to describe Scott and his men in the Antactic, and just as any radio station uses a commentator to describe the races or a test match.... Douglas Stewart. (vii-x).

Dedication: To Frank D. Clewlow and Leslie Rees

Appendix by Leslie Rees. 1. 'An Appreciation' (By courtesy of the A.B.C. Weekly) Leslie Rees, Federal Play Editor of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, writing in the A.B.C. Weekly on 7th June 1941, introduced the first broadcast of The Fire on the Snow with the following article.(pp.39-42). 2. 'The Radio Play as a Form'. These notes are for the most part drawn from material published in the volume Modern Short Plays. (pp.43-45).

Dedication: To Frank D. Clewlow and Leslie Rees