I Hate Crime
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
16 EpisodesTwice weeklyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 16
- Genre
- detective
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 30 He hates crime and he's been known to sport a bow tie! He's LARRY KENT and he first made his debut as a half-hour program, I Hate Crime, a half-hour show on Australian radio in 1950, created by Ron Ingleby, a prolific writer for radio. Originally a newshound from the Big Apple, Kent emigrated to Australia and set himself up business as a private eye. Like his counterparts at the time back in the States, Kent was always getting into trouble, but that never prevented him from appreciating the female form. His favourite pasttime was, he frequently reminded us, "Watching the blondes go by." It may have been all clichés, but the series proved to be quite p 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. Dead Air · 21 Apr 2026
- 2. The Long Silence · 28 Apr 2026
- 3. A Room Above the Street · 5 May 2026
Sign Off
4 Aug 2026 · 1h 1m
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Case of the Missing Hour
28 Jul 2026 · 24 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Night Broadcast
21 Jul 2026 · 39 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Last Train Out
14 Jul 2026 · 54 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Signal at Midnight
7 Jul 2026 · 17 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
A Room Above the Street
30 Jun 2026 · 32 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Long Silence
23 Jun 2026 · 47 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Dead Air
16 Jun 2026 · 1h 2m
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 I Hate Crime 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 I Hate Crime
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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