Into the Light is a 1938 Australian radio serial by Edmund Barclay.
According to Wireless Weekly "The serial begins in the year 1500 when England still cowered exhausted from the brutal Wars of the Roses, while the world around her was passing through changes more momentous than anything since the fall of the Roman Empire.
Portuguese mariners had doubled the Cape of Good Hope, Columbus added a new world to the old, and Cabot, sailing from Bristol, threaded his way through the icebergs of Labrador.
The capture of Constantinople by the Turks, and the flight and dispersal of its Greek scholars, opened anew the science and literature of the older world at the very hour when the intellectual energy of the middle ages had reached its lowest ebb.
It is at this period that the story opens in the village of Chilton Dene, hidden in the woods of Hampshire, the old Manor House on the hill above the village, and in a valley below, by the river, a Cistercian monastery.