A Night At The Theatre
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
13 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 13
- Genre
- variety
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 24 A Night at the Theatre explores the history of the heritage theatres in Melbourne and celebrates the diversity of live shows from the 1840s to the current day. It features music from many of the musicals staged in the theatres. It is hosted by Maurice Lockie. Produced by Golden Days Radio. Hosted by Maurice Lockie. Research by Richard Mulvaney Original shows from Seniors Festival Radio and you can find more at https://soundcloud.com/seniors-festival-radio 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 toget 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
4 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 Case of the Missing Hour · 12 May 2026
- 2. Sign Off · 19 May 2026
- 3. Dead Air · 26 May 2026
A Room Above the Street
4 Aug 2026 · 1h 2m
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Long Silence
28 Jul 2026 · 25 min
The one everybody argues about.
Dead Air
21 Jul 2026 · 40 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Sign Off
14 Jul 2026 · 55 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Case of the Missing Hour
7 Jul 2026 · 18 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Night Broadcast
30 Jun 2026 · 33 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Last Train Out
23 Jun 2026 · 48 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Signal at Midnight
16 Jun 2026 · 1h 3m
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while A Night At The Theatre 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 A Night At The Theatre
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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