The Flying Swan (radio play)

The Flying Swan is a 1939 Australian radio play by Catherine Shepherd. It told the story of Hans Christian Andersen. The play was one of Shepherd's major works.

The play was her fourth for the ABC.

The play was popular and was produced again in 1941, 1943, 1945 and 1949.

The play was produced in Canada. Its success prompted Shepherd to write a biographical play about John Bunyan, The Valiant Tinker.

According to Leslie Rees, with this play, "Shepherd took the problem of what shall a man write about, how shall he fix on his worthy and legitimate material. Hans Andersen, after many struggles, almost miraculously finds his true mission in writing fairy-stories based on his own poetically infused early experience."

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