Henry Lawson Episodes
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was a famous Australian writer and bush poet.
Bush poet being a writer of a specific style of poetry-often rhyming and narrative based.
Bush poet being a writer of a specific style of poetry-often rhyming and narrative based.
July 26, 2026
HUMOR/AUSTRALIA JOE WILSON'S COURTSHIP (PT 1) by HENRY LAWSON
🎙️ 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales "Joe Wilson's Courtship" by Henry Lawson (1901) Part 1 Every now and then a writer comes along who does something that sounds simple and is anything but — he tells the truth about ordinary people, in ordinary moments, with such precision and such tenderness that you feel, reading him, that someone has finally said the thing you always knew but could never quite find the words for. Henry Lawson was that writer. An Australian. A bushman's son. A man who ...
Jan. 3, 2026
THE BUSH FIRE by HENRY LAWSON (A.K.A.THE FIRE AT ROSS'S FARM)
This story was originally written as a 'Bush Ballad" or poem-story by Henry Lawson, and it describes how two competing farm families finally unite while trying to prevent a wildfire from destroying their farms. Check out our new 'Found In The Footnotes' every Wed at 4pm ET at 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast- short, AMAZING stories designed to entertain and enlighten in under ten minutes. Here's the Spotify link for your convenience! https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGf...
July 16, 2025
SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER (PT 2) HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER BY HENRY LAWSON
In part two our narrator, Joe, now older, heads out to the outback to raise sheep with his best friend who has just married a girl they had grown up with. Upon leaving she asks Joe not to let her new husband go near a drink- because he can't stop it once he gets starrted. Joe promises he won't. The reverend McLaghlin appears large in this story as well- bringing in the sheep.
July 13, 2025
SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER (PT 1) by HENRY LAWSON
Henry Lawson was one of Australia's greatest short story writers (I think the best) and poets, and hisn stories tell much about the people who settle Australia and fought the tough climate and barren landscape to farm and raise livestock. This story and the one that follows (Pt. 2) provied accurate histrorical depictions of the men, women, and families that settled that land, and the strength of good preachers who gave the people hope and strength. Check out our new website at www.bestof1001sto...
May 19, 2024
3 BANJO PATERSON STORIES FROM DOWN UNDER: HIS MASTERPIECE, SITTING IN JUDGEMENT,THIRSTY ISLAND
Australia owes a debt of gratitude to Banjo Paterson (and Henry Lawson) for their great short stories that chronicled the quirky and unique characters and places of Australia in its early days. These three short stories- His Masterpeice, Sitting...
Jan. 17, 2024
HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER by HENRY LAWSON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Henry Lawson
June 18, 2023
WATER THEM GERANIUMS (PT 2) HENRY LAWSON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Henry Lawson
June 14, 2023
WATER THEM GERANIUMS by HENRY LAWSON (PT 1)
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Henry Lawson
Jan. 25, 2023
NO PLACE FOR A WOMAN by HENRY LAWSON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Henry Lawson
Dec. 12, 2021
BRIGHTEN'S SISTER-IN-LAW by HENRY LAWSON
1001 Classic Short Stories Stories by Henry Lawson
Jan. 25, 2021
THE STORY OF THE ORACLE by HENRY LAWSON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Henry Lawson