''We're Going Through'' is a 1943 radio verse play by

T. Inglis Moore T. Inglis Moore (1901-1978) was an Australian writer, anthologist and academic who was born in Camden, New South Wales. Moore was the fifth of seven children and was educated at Sydney Grammar School and University of Sydney where he received a ...

about the Australian troops during the Malayan Campaign in

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, specifically the battle at Bakri and

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. It was one of a number of radio verse plays the ABC produced in the wake of the success of ''Fire on the Snow''. The ABC held a competition for verse plays and ''We're Going Through'' was commended by judges. It was originally broadcast as one of a series of these verse plays in 1943. The play was performed again a number of times on radio, including in 1944. It was published in 1945 with a foreword by

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. According to ''The Bulletin'', "Moore has done well to set down this plain truth about Chris —and the nature of poets —that he is a man like other men. But there are also times when a poet is not a man like other men... A poet, as Inglis Moore should know, is interested in his poetry. And of this side of Chris’s character the play says nothing at all. ''We’re Going Through'' is not, then, a drama of character." ''Angry Penguins'' said "A radio verse play hamstrung by all the artificialities and stylisations of 'radio technique'. Innumerable fade-ins and fade-outs lead from episodic drama to flash-back rhetoric. Not much characterisation. Mainly stock types. Sincere treatment." According to Leslie Rees, "although there is sensitive and vivid writing, the dominant character of the play is that of manliness, forthright feeling and mateship in face of deadly danger, a paean to the Diggers."

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{{reflist 1943 Australian radio dramas 1944 Australian radio dramas Australian verse dramas Australian radio dramas about World War Two