188:"as it opens, two men face each other over a pile of documents in a little room at the Sydney barracks. Captain Godwin, steely and calculating, has demanded of Major Croudace a grant of land. He has asked not the fertile plain land which is readily available, but a stretch of barren country along the rocky coast. He asks also for four hardened “lifers” to work it. Major Croudace senses that something is amiss, but he can hardly guess that Captain Godwin intends to make his fortune, not from farming, but from wrecking and plundering ships. Downstairs, meanwhile, the annual ball is in progress. Among the guests is Brian Mcßae, a young man of fine character, but brooding bitterly under the hurt of social ostracism, for he is of half-caste blood. Another guest is Katherine, Godwin's daughter. The two are instantly attracted. Thus the seeds are sown for a drama of conflicting loyalties and interests, in which harshness and evil are counterbalanced by eloquent and poetic tenderness."
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128:is a 1951 Australian radio play written by
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341:"The Week in wireless"
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