Ross Napier

Ross Napier (1932-November 2, 2004) was an Australian radio and TV writer best known for his work on the radio drama, The Castlereagh Line (which he later adapted into novels) and the TV series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, for which he wrote a large number of episodes and served as a script editor.

Napier was one of Australia's leading radio writers from the 1950s to 1970s He began working for Associated Programs on the half hour drama series Address Unknown. He lived for a time in London, then returned to Australia in the 1950s and went to work for Grace Gibson, the radio producer, working on most of her dramas, particularly Portia Faces Life. When television arrived in Australia, Gibson combatted it by making five-minute dramas, and Napier was one of her main writers of these until the 1970s.

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