A Matter Of Luck
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
10 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 10
- Genre
- theatre
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 3 A Matter of Luck. A program dedicated to the greatest inventers and scientific discovery of the world has known. A 30 minutes shows with authentic stories about scientific achievements. 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
3 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 96 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 Last Train Out · 2 Jun 2026
- 2. Night Broadcast · 9 Jun 2026
- 3. The Case of the Missing Hour · 16 Jun 2026
Night Broadcast
4 Aug 2026 · 1h 3m
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Last Train Out
28 Jul 2026 · 26 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Signal at Midnight
21 Jul 2026 · 41 min
The one everybody argues about.
A Room Above the Street
14 Jul 2026 · 56 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Long Silence
7 Jul 2026 · 19 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Dead Air
30 Jun 2026 · 34 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Sign Off
23 Jun 2026 · 49 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Case of the Missing Hour
16 Jun 2026 · 1h 4m
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while A Matter Of Luck was on the air.
Same seasons
theatre on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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