The Cadbury Show
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1954–1955
24 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1954
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1954–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 24
- Genre
- variety
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 43 During the 1950's Cadbury Chocolates sponsored "The Cadbury Show" on the Macquarie Network out of 2GB Sydney. The host was noted radio man Reginald Goldsworthy. Regular stars of the show were Rita Pauncefort, Kevin Brennan, Minnie Love, Frank Strain, Max Osbiston, John Meillon, Gordon Glenwright, Aileen Britten & Leonard Bullen. Wilbur Kentwell was at the organ and some regular singers that appeared in the program were Babs McKinnon, Donald Cameron, Alan Coad, Clive and Ken Raye and Tom Taylor. In Victoria it was heard on 3AW and 3CV (Maryborough). Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make no claim to ownership or copyright. These recordings have b 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
7 dated broadcasts across 73 years on the air, with 72 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 Long Silence · 24 Feb 2026
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 3 Mar 2026
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 10 Mar 2026
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 52 min
The one everybody argues about.
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 15 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 30 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 45 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 1h 0m
The one everybody argues about.
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 23 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 38 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 53 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1954–1955
Other series the network carried while The Cadbury Show was on the air.
Same seasons
variety on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Friends in front of a microphone
Jack Benny and Fibber McGee sold intimacy: recurring characters, in-jokes, a house style. The modern hang-out show is the same trick without the script.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Cadbury Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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