The Fire on the Snow

Fire on the Snow
Wireless Weekly 7 June 1941
Genreverse drama play
Running time60 mins[1] (7:30 pm – 8:30 pm)
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
Home station2FC
SyndicatesABC
StarringFrank Harvey
Written byDouglas Stewart
Directed byFrank Clewlow
Recording studioSydney
Original releaseJune 8, 1941 (1941-06-08)

The Fire on the Snow is a 1941 Australian verse play by Douglas Stewart about the Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica by Robert Falcon Scott. It premiered on ABC radio on 6 June 1941 to great acclaim and inspired a series of Australian verse dramas on ABC radio.[2][3]

The play was performed in Canada, England and New Zealand, and was an assigned text for the Leaving Certificate. It was also adapted into a stage version.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Sunday June 8", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 36 (23), Sydney: Wireless Press, June 7, 1941, retrieved 23 October 2023 – via Trove
  2. ^ Leslie Rees biography at Live Performance Hall of Fame
  3. ^ ""THE FIRE ON THE SNOW."". The Narracoorte Herald. SA: National Library of Australia. 3 June 1941. p. 4. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  4. ^ Rees, Leslie (1953). Towards An Australian Drama. p. 136.
  5. ^ "Fire on the Snow: A Radio Play". The Age. 27 August 1968. p. 19.