Samuel Pepys
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
58 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 58
- Genre
- docudrama
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 159 The radio comedy " The Samuel Pepys Show" , written and produced by Doug Edwards and Ian Heydon, ran for three seasons of 13 half-hour episodes from 1983 to 1985. Starring Higgins, Moore and Kev Golsby, the show was recorded live with a studio audience, something that had not been done since the heyday of radio in the 1940s and 1950s and has not been attempted since. These shows come from a special program "The Best of The Samuel Pepys Show", featuring highlights from all three seasons, broadcast in 1985. Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make no claim to ownership or copyright. These recordings have been acquired from publicly available source 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
14 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. A Room Above the Street · 1 Jul 2025
- 2. Signal at Midnight · 8 Jul 2025
- 3. The Last Train Out · 15 Jul 2025
Signal at Midnight
4 Aug 2026 · 57 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
A Room Above the Street
28 Jul 2026 · 20 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Long Silence
21 Jul 2026 · 35 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Dead Air
14 Jul 2026 · 50 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Sign Off
7 Jul 2026 · 1h 5m
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Case of the Missing Hour
30 Jun 2026 · 28 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Night Broadcast
23 Jun 2026 · 43 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Last Train Out
16 Jun 2026 · 58 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while Samuel Pepys was on the air.
Same seasons
docudrama on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
If you liked this
More to explore
Chosen by the same editors.
