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Sabotage is a 1940 Australian radio play by is a radio play by Catherine Shepherd. It imagines what it might be like to turn into a fifth column in Australia.

Leslie Rees called it a play that "predicates a tragedy which, having happened to others in Holland, Norway and elsewhere, might easily happen to persons in our own midst."

The play was performed again in 1941.

A copy of the play is at the Fryer Library.

Wireless Weekly called it "perhaps the most penetrating piece of drama she has given radio to date" and "shows with valuable clarity the insidious appeal of Nazi concepts to the man who is tired of democracy’s cumbersome working."

Premise

Richard Gale, a struggling intellectual, becomes attracted to Nazism during the Depression. He agrees to work for the Nazi Party.

References

1. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (30 November 1940), "Plays of the air— A Quisling in our Midst", ABC Weekly, nla.obj-1309271111, retrieved 28 January 2024 – via Trove
2. Australasian Radio Relay League. (January 25, 1941), "Advertising", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, nla.obj-713188542, retrieved 28 January 2024 – via Trove
3. Play listing at Fryer Library
4. Australasian Radio Relay League. (December 14, 1940), "Jonathan Listens to Plays "Sabotage" Is Drama With Message", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, nla.obj-720978158, retrieved 28 January 2024 – via Trove

External links

• Sabotage at AustLit
• Complete text of play at AustLit

• 1940 Australian radio dramas
• 1941 Australian radio dramas
• Australian radio dramas about World War Two
• Works by Catherine Shepherd