Eureka Stockade is a 1933 Australian radio play by Edmund Barclay about the Eureka Rebellion. It was one of the first radio scripts by Barclay who went on to become arguably Australia's leading radio writer.

The 1933 production was directed by Barclay himself and starred John Pickard as Peter Lalor.

Eureka Stockade (radio serial)

It was called a "remarkably successful historical drama".

Eureka Stockade (radio serial)

Other reviews were very positive. The Sun stated: Barclay has the flair for historic poems; and, with him, there is a manly grasp of nettles that shows his discrimination and sensibility... The effects were quite remark ably well done. The stormy preliminary meeting... and the subsequent attack and capture of the stockade, were breathlessly convincing... A fine, half-barbaric, wholly triumphant, march played away this vision of the past. The hour had flown by — Bravo, Edmund Barclay. Barclay later wrote an episode on the rebellion in his series As Ye Sow. He also depicted it in his adaptation of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.

Eureka Stockade (radio serial)

Cast

John Pickard as Peter Lalor

Bert Barton as Frederick Vern

Victor Goulet as Raffaello Carboni

James Stanley as Henry Ross

John Bedouin as James Stanley

Vivian Edwards as Charles Hotham

Ronald Mose as Captain

Edmund Butterworth as Captain Wise

Charles Wheeler as Trooper Garvey

Winifred Green as Alicia Dunn

References

1930s Australian radio dramas

1940s Australian radio dramas

Works by Edmund Barclay

Cultural depictions of the Eureka Rebellion