Love o' Land is a 1934 Australian radio play by Edmund Barclay.
[2] The play was a forerunner to Barclay's later serial about Australian history, As Ye Sow.
[5] ABC publicity called it an "Australian Cavalcade" adding "The action of the play covers one hundred and fifty years of Australian history, beginning with a pioneer family which landed with Governor Phillip in 1788.
Against a background of stirring national events, we witness Samuel Bentley and his family at handgrips with pioneering difficulties and follow them through a succession of varying fortunes.
The ghosts of such as Phillip, Hunter, Wentworth, Blaxland, Lawson, Hargraves, and Parkes will cast their shadows over the drama, but the play will point its moral —“that history is not made by the owners of great names, but by people whose names are unhonored and unsung.”[6] The scenes were: