Ross Napier

Ross Napier (1932-November 2, 2004)[1] was an Australian radio and TV writer best known for his work on the radio drama, The Castlereagh Line (which he later adapted into novels) and the TV series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, for which he wrote a large number of episodes and served as a script editor.[2]

Napier was one of Australia's leading radio writers from the 1950s to 1970s[3] He began working for Associated Programs on the half hour drama series Address Unknown. He lived for a time in London, then returned to Australia in the 1950s and went to work for Grace Gibson, the radio producer, working on most of her dramas, particularly Portia Faces Life. When television arrived in Australia, Gibson combatted it by making five-minute dramas, and Napier was one of her main writers of these until the 1970s.[4]

Selected Writings

  • Alias the Baron (1950) - radio
  • Amazing Mr Malone (1952) - radio
  • Famous Fortunes (1952) - radio
  • You Can't Win (1953) - radio
  • Address Unknown (1954) - radio
  • Portia Faces Life (1950s-70) - radio
  • You Can't Win (1953) - radio
  • Address Unknown (1954) - radio
  • Lust for Life (1961) - radio
  • I Know My Love (1962) - radio
  • Sara Dane (1962) - radio
  • Desiree (1963) - radio
  • Emergency Line (1964) - radio
  • Pray for a Brave Heart (1964) - radio
  • The Tilsit Inheritance (1965) - radio
  • Emergency Line (1965) - radio
  • The Shame of Sefton Ridge (1966) - radio
  • The Sinners of Sonoma (1967) - radio
  • Borrasca (1968) - radio
  • Kinkhead (1968) - radio
  • Skippy the Bush Kangaroo - TV series - writer and script editor
  • The Intruders (1969) - film - original story
  • Thirty Days Hath September (1969) - radio
  • Goodbye Gwynnevere (1970) - radio
  • I Killed Grace Random (1970) - radio
  • So Help Me God (1970) - radio
  • I, Christopher Macaulay (1971) - radio
  • My Father's House (1972) - radio
  • Without Shame (1972) - radio
  • Strip Jack Naked (1973) - radio
  • Heir Apparent (1974) - radio
  • Way of the Cat (1974) - radio
  • Exciting Stories From Australia's History (1975) - radio
  • Forever's a Long Time (1977) - radio
  • The Castlereagh Line (1982) - radio
  • The Castlereagh Line (1984) - novel
  • The Castlereagh Way (1985) - novel
  • The Castlereagh Rose (1985) - novel
  • The Colours of Castlereagh (1987) - novel
  • The Castlereagh Heritage (1988) - novel
  • The Castlereagh Cross (1992) - novel

References

  1. ↑ James, Reg (2015). A Theatre in my Mind. Vivid Publishing. pp. 128, 138. ISBN 978-1-925341-34-8.
  2. ↑ 'Skippy Episode Guide' Classic Australian Television
  3. ↑ 'Australian radio series (1930s–1970s): A guide to holdings in the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia', National Film and Sound Archive'
  4. ↑ Richard Lane, The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama 1923-1960, Melbourne University Press, 1994 p275


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