Wings Over Westralia is a 1936 British radio play by New Zealand author Gordon Ireland about the flight of Hans Bertram in 1932.
The play was hugely popular and aired on the BBC and in Germany, the US, New Zealand, Holland and Czechoslovakia.
[5] Reviewing a 1954 production The Age said "it was more in the nature of a documentary with trimmings, these being a series of scenes depicting the struggles of the two airmen to keep alive.
They are neither edifying, entertaining nor provocative of emotion unless the listener is one of those persons who take delight in witnessing human beings dying in extremis and suffering the pangs of hell.
"[6] "Beginning with the setting out in 1932 of the two young German aviators, Bertram and Klausmann, from Koepang, in the Junkers W 33 seaplane Atlantis, the thrilling narrative follows faithfully their 48 days of suffering, misadventure, and apparently hopeless abandonment in Australian bush.