# Forgotten Australian TV Plays...Outpost, wartime drama, filmed in 1959.

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Podcast: [The Last Post Radio Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-last-post-radio-show-7106637)
Published: 2026-05-12T22:30:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 1759

## Resource

Here, we speak with writer, historian Stephen Vagg about Outpost, a forgotten TV Play, filmed in 1959. Outpost is set in 1943, deep in the New Guinea jungle with Australian soldiers and an Air-Force Sergeant who manages to offend everyone. Before Mavis Bramston, Homicide and Bellbird, when channels were reluctant to show Australians, Australian content.

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