{{Short description|1937 play by Edmund Barclay}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox radio show | name = Mingled Yarn | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | other_names = | format = drama play | runtime = 60 mins | start_time = 9.15pm | end_time = 10.15pm | runtime_note = | country = Australia | language = English | home_station = 4QG | syndicates = ABC | writer = Edmund Barclay | director = | producer = | narrated = | record_location = Brisbane | remote_location = | other_location = | first_aired = {{Start date|1937|04|23}} | last_aired = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> }} '''''Mingled Yarn''''' is a 1937 Australian radio play by Edmund Barclay about the life of William Shakespeare. It was broadcast on the ABC for Australian Drama Week.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36900358 |title=Week of Australian Drama Broadcasts |newspaper=The Courier-mail |issue=1138 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=24 April 1937 |accessdate=8 September 2023 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17360443 |title=Broadcasts of Australian Plays. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=30,978 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=16 April 1937 |accessdate=8 September 2023 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
It aired on the anniversary of Shakespeare's birthday.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106156752 |title=Australian Radio Drama Week |newspaper=The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate |volume=LXVII |issue=4326 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=15 April 1937 |accessdate=8 September 2023 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Leslie Rees later wrote "Edmund Barclay wrote what seemed to me only the skeleton or prologue to an excellent study of the craftsman."<ref>{{Citation | author1=Australian Broadcasting Commission. | title=Plays of the Air: Shakespeare's Birthday | journal=ABC Weekly | volume = 2 | issue =16 | date = 20 April 1940 | location=Sydney | publisher=ABC | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1368696694 | id=nla.obj-1368696694 | access-date=8 September 2023 | via=Trove }}</ref>
==Premise== A series of imaginary incidents in the life of William Shakespeare starting in 1588 with Shakespeare as a young man and ending with him in retirement at Stratford on Avon being visited by his friend, Ben Jonson.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Australasian Radio Relay League. | title=Friday April 23 | journal=The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal | volume = 29 | issue =17 | date = April 23, 1937 | location=Sydney | publisher=Wireless Press | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-718566092 | id=nla.obj-718566092 | access-date=8 September 2023 | via=Trove }}</ref>
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Category:Works by Edmund Barclay Category:1937 Australian radio dramas Category:Cultural depictions of William Shakespeare