Afloat With Henry Morgan
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
52 EpisodesWeeklyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 52
- Genre
- adventure
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 56 Afloat with Henry Morgan was a 52 episode Australian series; each episode was about 12 minutes long. It was a George Edwards production. Original story by Warren Barry. Spending nearly his entire seafaring career in the Caribbean, wild tales of adventure swirl around the real life Morgan from 1655, his first noted appearance in the area, up until his death in 1688. One of the most intriguing mysteries concerning this hard living, sword-fighting sailor of the seven seas is how he actually came to be in the Caribbean. One particularly dashing story involves Morgan actually being shanghaied and sent on a boat against his will to become an indentured serv Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
13 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 95 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Long Silence · 12 Aug 2025
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 19 Aug 2025
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 26 Aug 2025
The Last Train Out
4 Aug 2026 · 40 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Signal at Midnight
28 Jul 2026 · 55 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
A Room Above the Street
21 Jul 2026 · 18 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Long Silence
14 Jul 2026 · 33 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Dead Air
7 Jul 2026 · 48 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Sign Off
30 Jun 2026 · 1h 3m
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Case of the Missing Hour
23 Jun 2026 · 26 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Night Broadcast
16 Jun 2026 · 41 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while Afloat With Henry Morgan was on the air.
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adventure on the air then
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What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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