Famous Escapes
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
16 EpisodesWeeklyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 16
- Genre
- adventure
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 8 Famous Escapes was a series from Australia around 1945 called Famous Escapes. The episodes deal with some of the most daring escapes in history by some of the most remarkable characters. They were an Artransa production. 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 together a collection of every available episode where possible. I will add to these collections if I discover new episodes or if any new episodes become available. Additionally, while I tried to put together a collection that contains the best 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
5 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 Long Silence · 21 Apr 2026
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 28 Apr 2026
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 5 May 2026
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 36 min
The one everybody argues about.
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 51 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 14 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 29 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 44 min
The one everybody argues about.
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 59 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 22 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 37 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while Famous Escapes was on the air.
Same seasons
adventure on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Famous Escapes
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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