Danger With Grainger
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
25 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 25
- Genre
- detective
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 114 Danger With Grainger : Drama series about Steve Grainger, Private Detective, whose cases involve him in crime and misdemeanours from murder to robbery to smuggling. He cooperates with the police and the F.B.I. and his newspaperman friend Cal Hendricks whom he can rely on for help - provided he gets a story. Cast: Ray Barrett (Steve Grainger). Label: Fidelity Episode duration: 30 mins Episodes produced: 52. there are 25 episodes here. There is also cutting the ABC Weekly from Nov 24 th 1956 in two parts. Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make no claim to ownership or copyright. These recordings have been acquired from publicly available sources 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
7 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. A Room Above the Street · 17 Feb 2026
- 2. Signal at Midnight · 24 Feb 2026
- 3. The Last Train Out · 3 Mar 2026
A Room Above the Street
4 Aug 2026 · 46 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Long Silence
28 Jul 2026 · 1h 1m
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Dead Air
21 Jul 2026 · 24 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Sign Off
14 Jul 2026 · 39 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Case of the Missing Hour
7 Jul 2026 · 54 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Night Broadcast
30 Jun 2026 · 17 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Last Train Out
23 Jun 2026 · 32 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Signal at Midnight
16 Jun 2026 · 47 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 Danger With Grainger 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 Danger With Grainger
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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