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
Genredrama play
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
SyndicatesABC
Written byAlexander Turner
Original release1937

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]

Premise

A couple move to Western Australia. The wife dies while on holiday.[6]

References
  1. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (1939), "Playwright turns producer", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC (Vol. 8 No. 23 (22 June 1946)), nla.obj-1334124833, retrieved 7 September 2023 – via Trove
  2. Australian Broadcasting Commission., "Alexander Turner Studio Portrait", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC (Vol. 21 No. 26 (1 July 1959)), nla.obj-1404251728, 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. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (1939), "Plays Of The Air – An Example From America – Westralian Author", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC (Vol. 3 No. 4 (25 January 1941)), nla.obj-1309886792, retrieved 7 September 2023 – via Trove
  5. "The Red Page – Westralian Books.", The bulletin., John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues)., Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 58 (3020), 29 Dec 1937 [1880], ISSN 0007-4039, nla.obj-574120676, retrieved 7 September 2023 – via Trove
  6. ""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.
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