''The Happy Hippopotamus'' is a 1953 Australian radio play that aired as an episode of ''The Rola Show''. It was a rare Australian play of the 1950s that touched on aboriginal themes.

Premise

According to ''ABC Weekly'' it was the "story of a scientific expedition that went to Kati Tanda (

Lake Eyre Lake Eyre ( ), officially known as Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, is an endorheic lake in east-central Far North South Australia, some north of Adelaide. The shallow lake is the depocentre of the vast endorheic Lake Eyre basin, and contains the ...

) to try to capture a huge animal the blacks said would come there to die. When the party found it they were amazed, but only Jack Barton and Kathy Wells could see it as it really was, a creature of the past, piteous in its life of loneliness and terror, stumbling and half blind."

References

{{reflist 1953 Australian radio dramas Radio plays about Aboriginal Australians