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

"[3] He added, "In my heart, I felt that Janet in As Ye Sow deserved a happier ending, but I couldn't let personal feelings interfere...

To portray character, suggest scenery and limn every situation definitely and unmistakably by sound alone is a difficult job, but it has been accomplished in this case with signal success.

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.

[10] Clement Semmler called it "an early ABC triumph... written by a prolific and usually hack radio writer.