Frankenstein
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1932–1932
13 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1932
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1932–1932
- Surviving broadcasts
- 13
- Genre
- horror
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 22 Produced by George Edwards, Frankenstein was a radio series adapted from Mary Shelley’s novel The Modern Prometheus. The story was about Baron Victor Frankenstein, a genius yet mad scientist who thinks that he can create a living man from dead bodies. When the show ended in 1932, it had a total of 13 episodes. 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 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
4 dated broadcasts across 95 years on the air, with 94 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 Last Train Out · 12 May 2026
- 2. Night Broadcast · 19 May 2026
- 3. The Case of the Missing Hour · 26 May 2026
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 20 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 35 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 50 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 1h 5m
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 28 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 43 min
The one everybody argues about.
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 58 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 21 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1932–1932
Other series the network carried while Frankenstein was on the air.
Same seasons
horror on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Frankenstein
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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