The William Flynn Show
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
36 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 36
- Genre
- detective
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 9 “The William Flynn Show" was a 3DB production in 1950, and is a fine example of Radio entertainment of the era. William Flynn conducts the 3DB orchestra with such singing stars as James Laverie, Muriel Howard, Max Blake, Dorothy Cayford and Horrie Dargie's Esquires. Production was by Alf Potter. The program was originally compared by Eric Pearce but later Maurice Callard took over those duties. Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make no claim to ownership or copyright. These recordings have been acquired from publicly available sources on the Internet, and my goal has been to put together a collection of every available episode where possible. I w 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
9 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 Last Train Out · 2 Dec 2025
- 2. Night Broadcast · 9 Dec 2025
- 3. The Case of the Missing Hour · 16 Dec 2025
Sign Off
4 Aug 2026 · 1h 5m
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Case of the Missing Hour
28 Jul 2026 · 28 min
The one everybody argues about.
Night Broadcast
21 Jul 2026 · 43 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Last Train Out
14 Jul 2026 · 58 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Signal at Midnight
7 Jul 2026 · 21 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
A Room Above the Street
30 Jun 2026 · 36 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Long Silence
23 Jun 2026 · 51 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Dead Air
16 Jun 2026 · 14 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while The William Flynn Show 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 The William Flynn Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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