Stormy Petrel is a 1948 Australian radio serial about the career of William Bligh by Rex Rienits.
Rex Rienits was a writer who wrote a number of scripts set in Australia's past.
Rienits said he believed Bligh "was a great man.
"[5] He later said that Bligh had "been grossly maligned" and "that Hollywood did a terrible thing in representing him, in the person of Mr. Laughton, as a cruel and brutal despot...
[4] The story of Bligh was told through the eyes of his wife Elizabeth, then John Hallet, then his daughter Mary.