Telling Mrs Baker

Telling Mrs Baker is a 1937 Australian radio play by Vance Palmer based on his 1922 stage play of the same name, which was adapted from a story by Henry Lawson.[1][2][3]

It was called "a one act character comedy."[4]

The play was later produced for radio again in 1942,[5] 1953,[6] 1954 (on a double bill with Dreamtime) and 1959.

Premise

"A comedy of character with a typical Henry Lawson touch. It tells of two drovers whose task it is to call on the wife of their dead mate and tell how he died." [6]

References
  1. "Plays of the Air: "The Dingo" Vance Palmer's Tale of the Queensland Coast", ABC Weekly, 13 April 1940, retrieved 19 February 2024 – via Trove
  2. "The Literary and Critical Page". Advocate. Vol. LV, no. 2717. 30 October 1924. p. 3. Retrieved 19 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Tuesday [June 15]", The Wireless Weekly, June 11, 1937, retrieved 19 February 2024 – via Trove
  4. "Playwrights of Australia: Plays, Novels, Poems", The Wireless Weekly, November 23, 1940, retrieved 19 February 2024 – via Trove
  5. "ABC Programmes — Wednesday, June 17", ABC Weekly, 13 June 1942, retrieved 19 February 2024 – via Trove
  6. "Radio Plays for Next Week A. B. C.", ABC Weekly, 7 November 1953, retrieved 19 February 2024 – via Trove
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