Ralph Rashleigh and the Bushrangers

Ralph Rashleigh and the Bushrangers is a 1953 Australian radio play by Edmund Barclay based on an 1840s novel by James Tucker.

"[7] According to the Adelaide Mail "The rather ponderous narration was irritating at first, but after a while the elaborate language... had the effect of adding to Roxley's enormities and giving them a kind of Dickensian grotesqueness.

The burning of the con stables, the attack on the farm while a party was in progress, the terrible scene when Foxley captured McGuffin.

a former overseer — all these gave a pic ture of savagery and brutality that must for ever be an ugly smear on Australia's early history.

The actors seem to have given more thought than usual to its characters, who are drawn with quite a compelling sympathy for the crude comradeship, of the period.