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{{Infobox radio show
| name               = Richard Bracken - Farmer
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| format             = verse drama
| runtime            = 60 mins
| start_time         = 10pm
| end_time           = 11pm
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| country            = Australia
| language           = English
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| syndicates         = ABC
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| writer             = John Horner
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| first_aired        = 26 August 1943
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'''''Richard Bracken-Farmer''''' is a 1943 Australian radio play by John Horner.<ref>{{Citation
| title=Thursday, August 26
| journal=ABC Weekly
| date=21 August 1943
| location=Sydney
| publisher=ABC
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1309841472
| id=nla.obj-1309841472
| access-date=1 February 2024
| via=Trove
}} </ref> (Other accounts say the author was "Wolfe Fairbridge".)
It was one of the most notable verse plays on Australia radio.<ref>{{cite book|page=166|title=Towards An Australian Drama|last=Leslie|first= Rees|year=1953}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11795920 |title=BROADCASTING |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)]] |issue=30,264 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=26 August 1943 |accessdate=1 February 2024 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
The play was broadcast by the ABC as part of a series of ten verse dramas on radio. The others included ''[[The Golden Lover]]'', ''[[The Real Betrayal]]'', ''[[We're Going Through]]'', ''[[It Has Happened Before]]'', ''Mined Gold'', ''[[Succubus (radio play)|Succubus]]'', ''[[The Unmapped Lands]]'', ''[[Brief Apocalypse]]'', and ''[[Fear (radio play)|Fear]]''.<ref>{{Citation
| title=Ten new verse plays
| journal=ABC Weekly
| date=20 March 1943
| location=Sydney
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1353953510
| id=nla.obj-1353953510
| access-date=1 February 2024
| via=Trove
}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/5961891 Wolfe Fairbridge] at AustLit
[[Category:Australian verse dramas]]
[[Category:1943 Australian radio dramas]]