The Meeting of the Waters (radio play)

The Meeting of the Waters is a 1950 Australian radio play by Edmund Barclay.

It was especially commissioned from Barclay by the ABC for Australia Day 1950.

Premise
It was about a "typical Australian family." According to ABC Weekly "It introduces the listener to a typical Australian family celebrating the Anniversary Day holiday. There is Grandad, a gentle-voiced, imaginative old man who glories in Australia’s colourful past, but is still vitally interested in her future; there is Mum, who lost her husband in World War II; there is Glenny, her younger son, still very much the schoolboy; and Douglas, her elder  son, a young man in his early twenties, who is overjoyed because he has just  landed a job as a surveyor on the Snowy River Scheme. Daphne, Douglas’ pretty but spoiled girl friend, is at first petulant when she learns that Douglas is going so far away to work.  Her father has already offered him a good job. But Grandad, with his tales of the havoc wrought in the past  by drought and flood, makes her see that Douglas will be taking part in a  scheme that will help people create a happier and more prosperous Australia  in the future. Australia’s past, present, and future are skilfully linked in this appealing play by a well-known Australian author."