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Australian chronicle... It gathered a tremendous following from coast to coast. No one had ever before tried to recreate the whole course of Australia’s history in one dramatic chronicle... Barclay’s success, more particularly in the first dozen episodes, was in projecting a group of characters as real as the members of one’s own family, with side-philosophies humorous and human, and in a confident flow of action.

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said it "is not, as done, as good a thing as it might be. " However the same magazine later said "the production shines because of its excellent radio technique. To portray character, suggest scenery and limn every situation definitely and unmistakably by sound alone is a difficult job, but it has

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A pioneer in historical-personal writing for Australian radio... There were faults of sentimentality and strained pattern-making as well as other shortcomings... but the story also had epic progress, characters who could become more real than one’s own circle, and the liveliest interest in the

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deserved a happier ending, but I couldn't let personal feelings interfere... I had dozens of letters protesting -against my treatment of Bluey and Mary... I can only say that it just had to turn 'out' that way."

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The story of an Australian family from 1788 to 1938, beginning with convict woman, Prudence Dent, and the Rum Corps officer, Gilbert Teal.

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It was "regarded by many critics as the greatest contribution to Australian historical drama."

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called it "an early ABC triumph... written by a prolific and usually hack radio writer."

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The serial ran into September, after which it was followed by another Barclay serial,

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In the late 1940s there was discussion the drama would be filmed in Hollywood.

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The series was very popular. There was another version in 1941, 1947 and 1951.

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Barclay had written an earlier saga about an Australian family for radio

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