Mingled Yarn
| Genre | drama play |
|---|---|
| Running time | 60 mins (9:15 pm – 10:15 pm) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | 4QG |
| Syndicates | ABC |
| Written by | Edmund Barclay |
| Recording studio | Brisbane |
| Original release | April 23, 1937 |
Mingled Yarn is a 1937 Australian radio play by Edmund Barclay about the life of William Shakespeare. It was broadcast on the ABC for Australian Drama Week.[1][2]
It aired on the anniversary of Shakespeare's birthday.[3]
Leslie Rees later wrote "Edmund Barclay wrote what seemed to me only the skeleton or prologue to an excellent study of the craftsman."[4]
Premise[edit]
A series of imaginary incidents in the life of William Shakespeare starting in 1588 with Shakespeare as a young man and ending with him in retirement at Stratford on Avon being visited by his friend, Ben Jonson.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ "Week of Australian Drama Broadcasts". The Courier-mail. No. 1138. Queensland, Australia. 24 April 1937. p. 16. Retrieved 8 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Broadcasts of Australian Plays". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 30, 978. New South Wales, Australia. 16 April 1937. p. 5. Retrieved 8 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Australian Radio Drama Week". The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate. Vol. LXVII, no. 4326. New South Wales, Australia. 15 April 1937. p. 10. Retrieved 8 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Australian Broadcasting Commission. (20 April 1940), "Plays of the Air: Shakespeare's Birthday", ABC Weekly, 2 (16), Sydney: ABC, nla.obj-1368696694, retrieved 8 September 2023 – via Trove
- ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (April 23, 1937), "Friday April 23", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 29 (17), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-718566092, retrieved 8 September 2023 – via Trove