All Stops Out - Part 1
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
25 EpisodesWeeklyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 25
- Genre
- theatre
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 172 All Stops Out Part 1 For many years, commencing December 2003, I produced and presented this Theatre Organ Music program "ALL STOPS OUT", featuring the mighty sounds of various Theatre organs from though out the World. If you love that sound then I am sure you will enjoy this series of programs. During the course of producing this program I met and made friends with many great Theatre organists. Thank you all for your contribution to the programs. Text: Alex Hehr Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make no claim to ownership or copyright. These recordings have been acquired from publicly available sources on the Internet, and my goal has been to 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
7 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 96 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 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Case of the Missing Hour · 17 Feb 2026
- 2. Sign Off · 24 Feb 2026
- 3. Dead Air · 3 Mar 2026
The Case of the Missing Hour
4 Aug 2026 · 14 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Night Broadcast
28 Jul 2026 · 29 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Last Train Out
21 Jul 2026 · 44 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Signal at Midnight
14 Jul 2026 · 59 min
The one everybody argues about.
A Room Above the Street
7 Jul 2026 · 22 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Long Silence
30 Jun 2026 · 37 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Dead Air
23 Jun 2026 · 52 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Sign Off
16 Jun 2026 · 15 min
The one everybody argues about.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while All Stops Out - Part 1 was on the air.
Same seasons
theatre on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of All Stops Out - Part 1
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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