Peter Smith Dawson
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1982–1982
6 EpisodesTwice weeklyPGSince 1982
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1982–1982
- Surviving broadcasts
- 6
- Genre
- theatre
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 65 "Peter Smith Dawson" (31 January 1882 – 27 September 1961) was an Australian bass-baritone and songwriter. Dawson gained worldwide renown through song recitals and many best-selling recordings of operatic arias, oratorio solos and rousing ballads during a career spanning almost 60 years. Although Dawson's repertoire embraced a great deal of contemporary popular songs and light music, he possessed a remarkably fluent and technically adroit vocal technique which enabled him to excel in highly demanding classical pieces. His voice combined an attractive dark timbre with an ideal balance of diction and vocal placement. He also possessed a smooth legato, a 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
3 dated broadcasts across 45 years on the air, with 44 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 · 30 Jun 2026
- 2. Night Broadcast · 7 Jul 2026
- 3. The Case of the Missing Hour · 14 Jul 2026
The Long Silence
4 Aug 2026 · 51 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Dead Air
28 Jul 2026 · 14 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Sign Off
21 Jul 2026 · 29 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Case of the Missing Hour
14 Jul 2026 · 44 min
The one everybody argues about.
Night Broadcast
7 Jul 2026 · 59 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Last Train Out
30 Jun 2026 · 22 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1982–1982
Other series the network carried while Peter Smith Dawson was on the air.
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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