Joy in the Making

Joy in the Making is a 1945 Australian radio series for children by Edmund Barclay and Joy Hollyer. It was a series of dramas based on historical events.

The ABC Weekly, reviewing the first episode, said: <blockquote>Our chief criticism is that this might be a little too advanced listening for young children. The much older children and their fathers (and perhaps mothers) will like it more; Beautifully scripted, and opening with the splendidly quoted lines, “I too will something make, and joy in the making,” the half-hour play had barely a weak link... The whole thing was inspirational as well as educational... Don’t miss Joy in the Making. </blockquote>

Select episodes

• Ep 1 - Four Men and a Light, the story of the attempts to build the Eddystone Lighthouse (30 Sept)
• Ep 2 - Elizabeth Pry (7 Oct)
• Ep 3 The Maker of Songs: Story of Franz Schubert (14 Oct)
• Ep 4 Island of Forgotten Men (21 Oct) - Father Damien
• Ep 5 Honest Abe (28 Oct)
• Ep 6 Pine Trees and X-Rays. Story of William Rontgen,
• Ep 7 Trifles Make Perfection (18 Nov) - story of Michelangelo
• Ep 8 Men of Panama (25 Nov)
• Ep 9 (2 Dec)
• Ep 10 Women Enter the Medical Profession (9 Dec)
• Ep 11 A Forgotten Genius (16 Dec)
• Thomas Alva Edison (20 Jan)
• The Wizard of Trees (Jan 27) - the life of Luther Burbank

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