D24
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
17 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 17
- Genre
- detective
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 13 D24 an Australian radio crime series D24, (1951–60), was a popular crime series based on real files from the Victorian Police Force. Scriptwriter: Roland Strong. Producer: Dorothy Crawford. Cast: Roland Strong (Announcer). Label: Hector Crawford Productions. 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 put together a collection of every available episode where possible. I will add to these collections if I discover new episodes or if any new episodes become available. Additionally, while I tried to put togeth 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
5 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. A Room Above the Street · 14 Apr 2026
- 2. Signal at Midnight · 21 Apr 2026
- 3. The Last Train Out · 28 Apr 2026
A Room Above the Street
4 Aug 2026 · 30 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Long Silence
28 Jul 2026 · 45 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Dead Air
21 Jul 2026 · 1h 0m
The one everybody argues about.
Sign Off
14 Jul 2026 · 23 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Case of the Missing Hour
7 Jul 2026 · 38 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Night Broadcast
30 Jun 2026 · 53 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Last Train Out
23 Jun 2026 · 16 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Signal at Midnight
16 Jun 2026 · 31 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 D24 was on the air.
Same seasons
detective on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of D24
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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