Carter Brown Felony
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
34 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 34
- Genre
- theatre
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 7 Carter Brown Mysteries was a crime detection thriller series first broadcast in 1957. The Carter Brown radio series, successfully sold to other territories such as New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and the British West Indies. The Australian produced Carter Brown radio series included a host of famous Australian talent including Ruth Cracknell, June Salter, Len Teale, Roger Climpson, John Meillon, Terry McDermott and Gordon Chater. Note: most of the above cast went on to star on Television. 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 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
9 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. Night Broadcast · 16 Dec 2025
- 2. The Case of the Missing Hour · 23 Dec 2025
- 3. Sign Off · 30 Dec 2025
The Case of the Missing Hour
4 Aug 2026 · 14 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Night Broadcast
28 Jul 2026 · 29 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Last Train Out
21 Jul 2026 · 44 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Signal at Midnight
14 Jul 2026 · 59 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
A Room Above the Street
7 Jul 2026 · 22 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Long Silence
30 Jun 2026 · 37 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Dead Air
23 Jun 2026 · 52 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Sign Off
16 Jun 2026 · 15 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while Carter Brown Felony 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
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