Hester Siding

Hester Siding is a 1937 Australian radio play by Alexander Turner. It was one of Turner's most acclaimed works.^[1][2]

Hester Siding

Genre	drama play
Country of origin	Australia
Language(s)	English
Syndicates	ABC
Written by	Alexander Turner
Original release	1937

The play was published in a collection of Turner's works in 1937, the first collection of plays published by a Western Australian author.^[3]

The play aired on the ABC as part of Australian drama week. There were new productions of it in 1941.^[4]

Leslie Rees called it "in its own slight and delicate was a masterpiece of emotional understatement".^[5]

The play sold to New Zealand.^[6]

Premise

A couple move to Western Australia. The wife dies while on holiday.^[7]

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.