Passage Of The Tangmar
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
52 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 52
- Genre
- adventure
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 40 The cargo ship Tangmar departs Sydney, destination Jamaica, with a small party of passengers, strangers who are to share the fortune of an inheritance. Not all of them will survive the journey. Passage of the Tangmar is a riveting, adult mystery serial produced in Australia in 1960. Australian radio is on par with the British BBC productions – outstanding stories, impeccable acting and exceptional sound effects; Passage of the Tangmar is a superb example of that work. The 52-episode program about the Tangmar and its cargo of death is unusual, first that it’s in a 15-minute serial format that is typically reserved for children’s shows and old time radi 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
13 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. The Case of the Missing Hour · 12 Aug 2025
- 2. Sign Off · 19 Aug 2025
- 3. Dead Air · 26 Aug 2025
The Long Silence
4 Aug 2026 · 55 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Dead Air
28 Jul 2026 · 18 min
The one everybody argues about.
Sign Off
21 Jul 2026 · 33 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Case of the Missing Hour
14 Jul 2026 · 48 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Night Broadcast
7 Jul 2026 · 1h 3m
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Last Train Out
30 Jun 2026 · 26 min
The one everybody argues about.
Signal at Midnight
23 Jun 2026 · 41 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
A Room Above the Street
16 Jun 2026 · 56 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 Passage Of The Tangmar was on the air.
Same seasons
adventure on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Passage Of The Tangmar
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