Australian horse-breaker and balladist Harry Morant was executed in South Africa in 1902 after service in the Boer War. 'Breaker Morant' shows that Morant's shooting of Boer prisoners was probably the result of a command inciting his patrol to vengeance. Lord Kitchener, who signed Morant's death warrant, was possibly appeasing the German Emperor, since a German missionary also died....but Morant had advised this missionary to defend himself from the dangerous Boers. FM Cutlack knew Harry Breaker Morant personally, having ridden with him in South Australia in 1898-9.

In 1902 Mrs Aeneas Gunn went with her husband to live on the remote Elsey cattle station near the Roper River in the Northern Territory. 'We of the Never-Never' and 'The Little Black Princess' are two classics of Australian literature that she wrote about her experiences in the outback. Both works have been presented here as one special condensed edition to accompany the magnificanet film 'We of the Never-Never'