Wheat Boat

Wheat Boat is a 1942 Australian radio play by Alexander Turner. It was bought for the ABC.^[2][3]

Wheat Boat

Genre	play drama
Running time	60 mins (8:00 pm – 9:00 pm)
Country of origin	Australia
Language(s)	English
Written by	Alexander Turner
Directed by	Charles Wheeler
Original release	3 June 1942[1]

According to Leslie Rees, "the play tells parallel tales 2,000 years apart, of innocent Greek vessels pathetically meeting an armed enemy at sea. History repeats itself, but Mr. Turner asks is it not possible for some to learn of the ancestral past other than by book-learning?"^[4]

The play was highly acclaimed.^[5] Leslie Rees called it "outstanding".^[6]

Wheat Boat was produced again in 1943 and 1944. The play was published in a collection of Turner's plays in 1946.^[7]

References

1. "ABC PROGRAMMES-WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 30 May 1942, retrieved 3 February 2024 – via Trove
2. "MUSIC AND DRAMA". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 32, 581. New South Wales, Australia. 30 May 1942. p. 6. Retrieved 3 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
3. "FIRST TWO COMPETITION PLAYS BOUGHT", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, Sydney: Wireless Press, May 30, 1942, nla.obj-726263086, retrieved 3 February 2024 – via Trove
4. "Plays of the Air – By Leslie Rees Wheat Boats", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 30 May 1942, retrieved 3 February 2024 – via Trove
5. "FORMER BANKER SELECTED AS W.A. A.B.C. PLAY PRODUCER!". Mirror. Vol. 24, no. 1254. Western Australia. 1 June 1946. p. 2. Retrieved 3 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
6. Rees, Leslie (1953). Towards an Australian Drama. p. 99.
7. "A West Australian Dramatist". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 33, 505. New South Wales, Australia. 12 May 1945. p. 8. Retrieved 3 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.