This collection gives a taste of the wide variety of genres of radio series that Australian audiences enjoyed.

Smoky Dawson (1914–2008) was born in Warrnambool, Victoria.

He was Australia's first cowboy and a pioneer of Australian country music.

Tim Bowden describes the popularity of radio dramas and soap operas in the 1950s and 60s, before television took over people's attention in the evenings.

The Rogues Gallery radio serial consisted of portraits of famous scoundrels and was produced by Dorothy Crawford.

Guest contributor Jennifer Bowen shares extracts from several rare regional radio programs in the NFSA collection funded by the Rural Bank of NSW.

This serial was adapted from a number-one bestselling historical novel by Rachel Field, based on the true story of a notorious French murder case.

A thriller series based on two Raymond Chandler novels, The Lady in the Lake and The High Window.

Mystery is My Hobby was a crime series produced by Grace Gibson Radio Productions and broadcast from 1954.

This mystery thriller radio serial tells what happens when Gail Barrie and her friend Margaret Allen are kidnapped on their way to claim a million dollars from Gail's father.