Margaret Catchpole (radio play)

[4][5] It was one of several dramatisations of Australian historical figures by Rienits.

[6] Plays on Australian subjects were relatively rare on Australian radio at the time and Margaret Catchpole was listed by Leslie Rees as among the most notable of the 1940s.

[10] Catchpole's life was also dramatised by the ABC in 1950 as an episode of Famous Women[11] and she was the subject of a "talks" episode in 1953.

[12] According to the ABC Weekly, it told "the story of a strong-minded, attractive English girl who was sent out to New South Wales early in the nineteenth century and who aroused public interest by rejecting the offer of marriage made by a well-set-up free settler of good character.

Why Margaret Catchpole was transported and why she refused marriage are unfolded in this chronicle play which holds its suspense to the end.