Balzac (radio play)
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'''''Balzac''''' is a 1950 Australian radio play by [[Catherine Shepherd (writer)|Catherine Shepherd]] about the writer [[Balzac]]. It was one of a series of biographies on writers written by Shepherd.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143094009 |title=A.B.C. Wants Australian Radio Play |newspaper=[[South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus]] |volume=LII |issue=76 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=18 August 1952 |accessdate=21 February 2024 |page=2 (feature section) |via=National Library of Australia}} |
'''''Balzac''''' is a 1950 Australian radio play by [[Catherine Shepherd (writer)|Catherine Shepherd]] about the writer [[Balzac|Honoré de Balzac]]. It was one of a series of biographies on writers written by Shepherd.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143094009 |title=A.B.C. Wants Australian Radio Play |newspaper=[[South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus]] |volume=LII |issue=76 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=18 August 1952 |accessdate=21 February 2024 |page=2 (feature section) |via=National Library of Australia}} |
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The play was commissioned by the ABC to commemorate the anniversary of Balzac's death |
The play was commissioned by the ABC to commemorate the anniversary of Balzac's death, a rare feat for the ABC.{{Citation |
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''The Age'' |
''The Age'' criticized ''Balzac'', calling the play "a thoroughly artificial picture of the subject. Never once during the 60 minutes the play ran was one ever really convinced that Balzac was a genius with a place in the long succession of literary giants. No amount of subtle acting could have created that illusion either."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206396865 |title=The Week in Wireless |newspaper=[[The Age]] |issue=29,738 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=19 August 1950 |accessdate=21 February 2024 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}} |
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A review from the same paper of the 1952 production called it "good reporting rather |
A review from the same paper of the 1952 production called it "good reporting rather |
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Shepherd later adapted |
Shepherd later adapted the Balzac novel ''The Miner's Daughter'' for radio in 1959.{{Citation |
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