大象传媒

Daisy Bates pioneering journeys in Western Australia in the early 1900s, studying and working with Aboriginal people.

'The pioneers of Western Australia were noble men and women, and nearly all of them were above reproach and more than kindly in their treatment of the Aboriginal. But it was a kindness that killed as surely as cruelty would have done. The Australian native can withstand all the ravages of nature - fiendish droughts and sweeping floods, horrors of thirst and enforced starvation: but he cannot withstand civilisation.'

Stars Sinead Cusack as Daisy Bates. Narrated by Edward de Souza.

Fifth of seven true stories of travel and adventure by intrepid women, compiled, and written by Julia Keay.

Producer: John Powell

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in 1988.