The Hot and Copper Sky is a 1962 British radio play by Bruce Stewart about the bushranger Ben Hall, originally written for BBC radio.
[1][2] Stewart adapted it into a TV play The Night of Ben Hall which the BBC optioned for two years but did not use.
[4] The play was recorded for Australian radio in 1963.
[5][6] Ben Hall and two fellow-bushrangers, Dunn and Jack Gilbert, arrive at the small township of Canowindra.
As there are no police or, the outlaws proceed to take over the town, until a "town leader" Mr Grace makes plans to take action.