The Black Feather

The Black Feather is a 1944 Australian radio play by Edmund Barclay. It was a propaganda play for World War Two.

The Black Feather
Genreradio drama
Running time30 mins (8:30 pm – 9:00 pm)
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
Home station2FC
SyndicatesABC
Written byEdmund Barclay
Directed byCharles Wheeler[1]
Original release8 February 1944

It originally aired in 1944 and was produced again in 1945, directed by Frank Harvey.[2]

Premise

According to ABC Weekly "The black feather is a symbol that has arisen during the present war. The white feather came to mean cowardice in the days of the cockpit, because a white feather in a game-cock was the sign of a cross-breed in birds, and suggested that the cock was no good for fighting. To learn what the black feather stands for listeners must tune in."[3]

Another account in the same magazine described it as such: "the story of an event long overdue In Australia—the housewives’ rebellion against black marketing. "You remember the affair of the Black Feather, and how it swept Australia like a cleansing me. Some say it first leapt up in Perth, others trace the origin to Goulburn, but as a matter of cold, hard fact, it all began in New Guinea.” [4]

References
  1. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (1939), "Tuesday, February 8", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC (Vol. 6 No. 6 (5 February 1944)), nla.obj-1355424998, retrieved 21 October 2023 – via Trove
  2. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (1939), "FRIDAY", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC (Vol. 7 No. 30 (28 July 1945)), nla.obj-1401622800, retrieved 21 October 2023 – via Trove
  3. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (1939), "The Black Feather", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC (Vol. 6 No. 6 (5 February 1944)), nla.obj-1355424585, retrieved 21 October 2023 – via Trove
  4. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (1939), "This week's A.B.C. PLAYS on the National programmes", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC (Vol. 7 No. 30 (28 July 1945)), nla.obj-1401623081, retrieved 21 October 2023 – via Trove
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