In Popular Culture
Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris has begun work on a film based on Barry's life, entitled Heaven and Earth,. Set in 1825 in the Cape, the film tells of a secret love affair between Barry (played by Natascha McElhone) and Lord Charles Somerset (James Purefoy).
The character of Barry has been played by Anna Massey in an episode of the BBC drama-documentary A Skirt Through History.
His life is the subject of the historical novel James Miranda Barry (published in the USA as The Doctor) by Patricia Duncker.
The Canadian aspect of Barry's career was dramatised in an episode of the series Heritage Television, produced by then-independent superchannel CHCH in Hamilton, and hosted by Canadian historian Pierre Berton.
A 2004 play, Whistling Psyche by Sebastian Barry, imagines a meeting between James Barry and Florence Nightingale.
A song by contemporary folk duo Gilmore & Roberts, Doctor James, retells selected events from the life story of Doctor James Barry. The song was released on the album The Innocent Left on Navigator Records, October 2012.
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