The Problem of Johnny Flourcake is a 1949 Australian radio feature by Ralph Peterson.
[3] "The birth of an aboriginal boy, his growth and education at a mission school, and the trials and tribulations which beset him as an adolescent and young adult.
"[4] According to Smith's Weekly, "Always directly personal, the narration touched on the misery and terror endured by Johnny's fore fathers, the callous treatment of his black brethren of to-day, and the diminishing future of corruption or neglect.
AH this was related in the most lucid story form, with a single narrator leading us past successive moments of drama.
"[5] The Sun called it "one of the most moving and beautifully-written scripts yet heard in local radio.