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1937 play by Alexander Turner Radio show
Hester Siding
Genredrama play
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
SyndicatesABC
Written byAlexander Turner
Original release1937

Hester Siding is a 1937 Australian radio play by Alexander Turner. It was one of Turner's most acclaimed works.

The play was published in a collection of Turner's works in 1937, the first collection of plays published by a Western Australian author.

The play aired on the ABC as part of Australian drama week. There were new productions of it in 1941.

Leslie Rees called it "in its own slight and delicate was a masterpiece of emotional understatement".

The play sold to New Zealand.

Premise

A couple move to Western Australia. The wife dies while on holiday.

References

  1. "Playwright turns producer", ABC Weekly, 8 (23), Sydney, 22 June 1946, retrieved 7 September 2023 – via Trove
  2. "Alexander Turner Studio Portrait", ABC Weekly, 21 (26), Sydney, 1 July 1959, retrieved 7 September 2023 – via Trove
  3. "New Publications". The West Australian. Vol. 53, no. 16, 007. Western Australia. 16 October 1937. p. 4. Retrieved 7 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Plays Of The Air – An Example From America – Westralian Author", ABC Weekly, 3 (4), Sydney, 25 January 1941, retrieved 7 September 2023 – via Trove
  5. "The Red Page – Westralian Books.", The Bulletin, 58 (3020), Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 29 Dec 1937, retrieved 7 September 2023 – via Trove
  6. "Australian radio plays". The Canberra Times. 14 August 1939. p. 2. Retrieved 23 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ""Hester Siding."". The West Australian. Vol. 53, no. 15, 862. Western Australia. 29 April 1937. p. 21. Retrieved 7 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
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