Castle Hill (radio play)

Castle Hill is a 1947 Australian radio play by Madge Parkin about the Castle Hill Rising.

It aired on Lux Radio Theatre as part of a series of Australian written plays.

Controversy The play was criticised for its depiction of the priest Reverend James Harold.Harold Perkins, 'Harold, James (1744–1830)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/harold-james-2156/text2755, published first in hardcopy 1966, accessed online 18 February 2024. The Advocate wrote "The Lux Radio Theatre has apologised for the play . . . but for one person who reads the apology, there will be a hundred who heard the play and who will have one more stick with which to beat the dirty Irish."

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