Undercover Carson
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
104 EpisodesTwice weeklyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 104
- Genre
- detective
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 54 Undercover Carson follows the adventures of a British Secret Service Agent Bruce Carson posted to South America to track down escaped German Nazi Scientists who had developed a highly lethal & destructive death ray. The death ray was an extremely powerful laser, ahead of its time and capable of widespread devastation. Pipe smoker and collector of novelty pipes and exotic weapons, Carson combines his interests in such a way that the 5 or 6 pipes that he always carries with him are capable of extraordinary uses - not just for smoking - more likely firing arrows, storing knockout drops etc. Undercover Carson, Secret Agent - Operation Deathray: An Assignm 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
25 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 94 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 2024, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Long Silence · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 3 Dec 2024
A Room Above the Street
4 Aug 2026 · 30 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Long Silence
28 Jul 2026 · 45 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Dead Air
21 Jul 2026 · 1h 0m
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Sign Off
14 Jul 2026 · 23 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Case of the Missing Hour
7 Jul 2026 · 38 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Night Broadcast
30 Jun 2026 · 53 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Last Train Out
23 Jun 2026 · 16 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Signal at Midnight
16 Jun 2026 · 31 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while Undercover Carson 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 Undercover Carson
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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