The Fire on the Snow is a 1941 Australian verse play by Douglas Stewart about the Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica by Robert Falcon Scott.

[6] Leslie Rees, the ABC's Drama Editor, read it and encouraged Stewart to turn it into a radio play.

Clewlow decided to employ a female actor, Ida Osbourne, as narrator to contrast with the all-male cast.

[11] The Bulletin said "it is more important as a poem than as a play, though the natural dramatic quality of what it treats of... the powerful statement it makes on a theme of supreme and absolute human heroism, and, as well, the strong reality in the cold awe of its setting, add up to uncommonly impressive radio drama.

I am convinced that Douglas Stewart's dramatic chronicle justified in the event every ounce of the preliminary praise I was in the position to give it.