Kathleen Carroll

Kathleen Carroll (died 1999)[1] was an Australian writer. She was born in Rockhampton, grew up in Brisbane and moved to Sydney in 1936 to work in an advertising film. During the war she worked in an aircraft factory.[2] She became one of the leading writers of radio serials in Australia.[3]

Theatre historian Leslie Rees praised her "faith in and understanding of working-class people".[4]

Carroll won the 1940 Westralian Drama Festival Award for her play, Saturday.[1]

She wrote many scripts for radio serials produced by Grace Gibson.[5]

Select credits

  • Office Interlude - stage play[6][7]
  • Saturday (1940) - stage play[8]
  • Sabotage - radio play
  • Babes in the Wood - radio play
  • Small Town - radio play
  • Murder in the blood (1949) - radio play[9]
  • Frenchman's Creek (1950) - radio play
  • Mary Lane - radio serial
  • Wakefield - radio serial

References

  1. ^ a b "Kathleen Carroll". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 2026-01-02.
  2. ^ Australian Broadcasting Commission. (15 June 1946), "CITY NOISES AID WRITER", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, nla.obj-1334132832, retrieved 8 October 2025 – via Trove
  3. ^ "HEARTTHROB EXPERTS". The Sun. No. 13659. New South Wales, Australia. 19 November 1953. p. 47 (LATE FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 8 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ Rees, Leslie (1953). Towards An Australian Drama. p. 124.
  5. ^ Australian radio series (1930s–1970s) (PDF). National Film & Sound Archive. 1998. Retrieved 2026-01-03.
  6. ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (July 13, 1940), "SYDNEY WRITER'S SUCCESS", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-720013333, retrieved 8 October 2025 – via Trove
  7. ^ "SHORT PLAYS". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 33, 271. New South Wales, Australia. 12 August 1944. p. 6. Retrieved 8 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ ""SATURDAY."". The West Australian. Vol. 56, no. 16, 914. Western Australia. 19 September 1940. p. 3. Retrieved 8 October 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ Australian Broadcasting Commission. (13 August 1949), "Studio news and VIEWS", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, nla.obj-1370788667, retrieved 8 October 2025 – via Trove
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