Sabotage (radio play)

Sabotage
Genredrama play
Running time60 mins (8:00 pm – 9:00 pm)
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
Hosted byABC
Written byCatherine Shepherd
Directed byJohn Cairns
Original release4 December 1940

Sabotage is a 1940 Australian radio play by is a radio play by Catherine Shepherd. It imagines what it might be like to turn into a fifth column in Australia.

Leslie Rees called it a play that "predicates a tragedy which, having happened to others in Holland, Norway and elsewhere, might easily happen to persons in our own midst."[1]

The play was performed again in 1941.[2]

A copy of the play is at the Fryer Library.[3]

Wireless Weekly called it "perhaps the most penetrating piece of drama she [Catherine Shepherd] has given radio to date" and "shows with valuable clarity the insidious appeal of Nazi concepts to the man who is tired of democracy’s cumbersome working."[4]

Premise

Richard Gale, a struggling intellectual, becomes attracted to Nazism during the Depression. He agrees to work for the Nazi Party.

References

  1. ^ Australian Broadcasting Commission. (30 November 1940), "Plays of the air— A Quisling in our Midst", ABC Weekly, nla.obj-1309271111, retrieved 28 January 2024 – via Trove
  2. ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (January 25, 1941), "Advertising", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, nla.obj-713188542, retrieved 28 January 2024 – via Trove
  3. ^ Play listing at Fryer Library
  4. ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (December 14, 1940), "Jonathan Listens to Plays "Sabotage" Is Drama With Message", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, nla.obj-720978158, retrieved 28 January 2024 – via Trove