The Valiant Tinker
Wireless Weekly 11 November 1939 | |
| Genre | drama play |
|---|---|
| Running time | 60 mins |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language(s) | English |
| Hosted by | ABC |
| Written by | Catherine Shepherd |
| Original release | 12 November 1939 |
The Valiant Tinker is a 1939 Australian radio play by Catherine Shepherd about John Bunyan. The play was popular and was performed again in 1941 and 1950.
The play was one of Shepherd's key works.
According to Leslie Rees the play "demonstrated the political and religious pressure the writer may meet when he writes his mind, and how he must resist it. There are no heroics about Bunyan in this play, he quietly prefers prison to blinkers, there is a quality of peaceful certainty in him, he knows what he must do."