Spoiled Darlings is a 1940 Australian romantic comedy radio play by Edmund Barclay that was broadcast nationally on the ABC.

[7] Geoffrey Thomas, reviewing the 1954 production, called it "gay and charming... and, if it is, perhaps, a little overstrained in its mannerisms (I can’t believe that people were ever quite so flowery either in their rudeness or in their politeness to one another!)

"[8] Leslie Rees referred to it as "a witty souffle of a comedy... a play of light intention, it doesn’t dissect or probe, it does chuckle!"

A young man from England , Jeffrey Lorimer, is mistaken for an assigned convict servant by the beautiful Anne Carmichael, daughter of a rich settler.

Lorimer also goes to work for Robert Wardell and William Wentworth, whose newspaper articles greatly annoy Darling.