Exit Socrates

1939 Australian radio play by Catherine Shepherd

Radio show

Exit SocratesGenre| drama play

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Running time| 30 mins (8:00 pm – 8:30 pm)
Country of origin| Australia
Language(s)| English
Hosted by| ABC
Written by| Catherine Shepherd
Directed by| Frank Willis
Original release| 5 January 1939

Exit Socrates is a 1939 Australian radio play by Catherine Shepherd.[1][2] It was considered one of the more notable Australian radio plays of that year.[3][4]

The play was performed again later in 1939 and in 1945.[5]

## Premise

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"Mr Rowlands, the little school master was a failure at fifty-five, because he ’ taught the “dangerous” practice that children should be made to think for themselves rather than follow a leader blindly. And the manner in which he showed the courage of his convictions forms the dramatic movement for this latest play of the Tasmanian author, Catherine Shepherd. She has taken the immortal death of Socrates to give point to the moral that the path of sincere individualism is sown with thorns and briars."[6]

## References

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1. ^ "RADIO TOPICS". Saturday Evening Express. Vol. X, no. 49\. Tasmania, Australia. 31 December 1938. p. 14. Retrieved 21 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
2. ^ "RADIO NEWS ITEMS". Daily Examiner. Vol. 29, no. 9486\. New South Wales, Australia. 31 December 1938. p. 6. Retrieved 21 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
3. ^ "Our Service Department", The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 10 Apr 1940, nla.obj-592834587, retrieved 21 February 2024 – via Trove
4. ^ Rees, Leslie (1953). Towards An Australian Drama. p. 165.
5. ^ "PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS What's on This Week", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 13 October 1945, nla.obj-1402067803, retrieved 21 February 2024 – via Trove
6. ^ "THURSDAY .... JANUARY 5", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, Sydney: Wireless Press, December 30, 1938, nla.obj-714524851, retrieved 21 February 2024 – via Trove