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:
Our chief criticism is that this might be a little too advanced listening for young children. The much older children and their fathers 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.
Select episodes
- Ep 1 - Four Men and a Light, the story of the attempts to build the Eddystone Lighthouse
- Ep 2 - Elizabeth Pry
- Ep 3 The Maker of Songs: Story of Franz Schubert
- Ep 4 Island of Forgotten Men - Father Damien
- Ep 5 Honest Abe
- Ep 6 Pine Trees and X-Rays. Story of William Rontgen,
- Ep 7 Trifles Make Perfection - story of Michelangelo
- Ep 8 Men of Panama
- Ep 9
- Ep 10 Women Enter the Medical Profession
- Ep 11 A Forgotten Genius
- Thomas Alva Edison
- The Wizard of Trees - the life of Luther Burbank