The years from the 1930s to the 1960s were bleak ones for home-grown theatre - it wasn't as if the writers weren't around (there were a bunch in radio) but they weren't given much chance to do plays. The list of local "classics" is a short one - The One Day of the Year, The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Rusty Bugles, Lady in Danger (maybe I'm stretching that one but it did make Broadway) and this, which is probably best known as a radio play.
It's not on an Australian subject, though, concerning itself with Scott's expedition to Antarctic. This is sure fire material which almost always works and Stewart's version of it doesn't disappoint; the language is evocative and powerful while still being clear. It's a little unfair this radio play got most of the radio play kudos from the time, but it's accomplished nonetheless.
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