Hester's Diary

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Hester's Diary is a 1947 Australian radio serial written by John Appleton set in colonial Australia. [1]

Contents

The Brisbane Mail said star Elaine Montgomery "gives a sincere portrayal of young sentimentalist confiding hopes and fears to parchment... But John Tate, as stuttering ensign, steals the show." [2]

Smith's Weekly said "This serial has steadily improved, episode by episode, and the story is already aflush with life. Miss Therese Howell, producer, Jhs wisely shifted the centre of interest from the women to the men and there is a latent promise of action moving through the delicately-played love story...This seems to be that long-awaited curipsity — a serial for intelligent listeners." [3]

The serial was repeated in 1951 and 1956. [4]

Premise

According to ABC Weekly "It is a love story of Australia in Governor Macquarie’s time, and has a plot in which romance and adventure are cleverly blended. Based on the diary of a young and beautiful English girl, Hester, daughter of one of England’s landed gentry, the story opens when she is 22. In the manner of the times she is fearful of spinsterhood, journeys alone to Australia to marry, under Vice-Regal patronage, John Carmichael, a young officer of the 73rd Regiment, in N.S-W. Her life, first as an officer’s wife, later as the wife of a “free settler” when young Carmichael resigns his com-mission to “go on the land,’is the framework of a delightful story." [5]

Cast

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References

  1. ↑ "NEW 5 AD PIONEER SERIAL TODAY". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . Vol. 93, no. 28, 787. South Australia. 15 January 1951. p. 4. Retrieved 24 December 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Radio wants to reduce cost of sport". Sunday Mail. No. 914. Queensland, Australia. 26 October 1947. p. 6. Retrieved 24 December 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "ON THE AIR". Smith's Weekly . Vol. XXX, no. 24. New South Wales, Australia. 14 August 1948. p. 12. Retrieved 24 December 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "Thursday December 6", ABC Weekly, 18 (48), Sydney, 1 December 1956, retrieved 24 December 2023– via Trove
  5. ↑ "Those Early Days in Sydney: Hester's Diary from 2UE", ABC Weekly, 10 (30), Sydney, 24 July 1948, nla.obj-1431113576, retrieved 24 December 2023– via Trove
  6. ↑ "HILDA OF THE LAWSONS TAKES TIME OFF TO TALK!", ABC Weekly, 10 (30), Sydney, 24 July 1948, retrieved 24 December 2023– via Trove
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