''The Gods of Wheat Street'' is an Australian television drama series that screened on
ABC TV from 12 April 2014. The six-part series tells the stories of the Freeburn clan, an
Australian Aboriginal
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands ...
family.
Synopsis
Odin Freeburn, head of the family, is being pulled in all directions as he tries to keep his family together. Odin has one brother in jail, another brother is in love with the daughter of the family enemy and his wife has run away to the city leaving him to raise their two daughters. To complicate matters, his employer has just died, his sister-in-law is in love with him and the spirit of his mother Eden has come back on a mission to protect the important destiny of the Freeburn family line.
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Cast
Production
The series is written by Jon Bell, who is also a producer with Lois Randall. Executive producers are Fiona Eagger and Deb Cox
Deborah Cox (born 29 January 1958) is an Australian screenwriter and producer for television and film.
Cox started working in the television industry as a production assistant for the Crawford Productions television series '' Skyways''. It was ...
from Every Cloud Productions along with Sally Riley, ABC TV's head of Indigenous Unit. It is directed by Catriona McKenzie
Catriona McKenzie is an Australian filmmaker. She is known for her film ''Satellite Boy'' and television series ''Kiki and Kitty'' (written by Nakkiah Lui) and ''Wrong Kind of Black''. Her production company is called Dark Horse.
Early life an ...
, Wayne Blair and Adrian Wills.The Gods of Wheat Street, new Indigenous drama for ABC1
by David Knox, ''TV Tonight'', 15 October 2012 The show was filmed around
Casino
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and
Lismore in Northern
New South Wales
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in late 2012.
Episodes
Soundtrack
A soundtrack was recorded and credited to
Jeff Lang
Jeff Lang (born 9 November 1969) is an Australian guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and music producer. Lang plays various types of guitar, both slide and standard, as well as banjo, mandolin, cümbüş and drums.
He is a three-time ARIA Award w ...
and released on 12 May 2014. At the
APRA Music Awards of 2014 APRA or Apra may refer to:
Places
*Apra, Punjab, a census town city in Jalandhar District of Punjab, India
* Apra Harbor, the main port of Guam
Acronyms
* American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana), a Peruvi ...
, the title track was nominated for Best Television Theme.
Track listing
# "The Gods of Wheat Street" - 1:01
# "Back Where They Belong" - 1:33
# "Together Again" - 3:05
# "Three Weeks Till the Auction" - 1:34
# "Athena in Waiting Room" - 1:15
# "What Happened to You" - 1:36
# "Have You Seen Them Fables" - 1:14
# "Roll Call" - 1:43
# "One Will Be Born, One Will Die" - 1:46
# "Saved By the Cavalry" 2:25
# "Outside Harry's" - 1:20
# "Do You Like What You See" - 2:46
# "Smelling the Shirt" - 1:29
# "The Return of Jonesy Brown" - 0:45
# "We're Never Going Back" - 2:12
# "Jonesy in the Workshop" - 1:19
# "Izzy and the Money" - 1:35
# "What Am I Getting Wrong" - 1:23
# "Who Did This Fables" - 2:44
# "You Mongrel Black Dog" - 1:09
# "I Deserved That Money" - 1:32
# "Odin's Accident" - 4:51
# "Letters In Jail" 1:23
# "Izzy Rushes for the Post" - 1:55
# "Electra Grabs the Taser" - 1:22
# "There's a Surprise Wedding" - 1:43
# "You're My Strong Boy" - 1:03
# "What Happens in Court" - 1:23
# "Rewards Program" - 1:13
# "Going Once Going Twice" - 2:20
# "You've Killed Him" - 1:20
# "If You've Got Something to Say" - 0:59
# "You Still Here" 1:15
References
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
2013 Australian television series debuts
English-language television shows
Indigenous Australian television series