Hidden Truth
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1967–1967
10 EpisodesWeeklyPGSince 1967
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1967–1967
- Surviving broadcasts
- 10
- Genre
- detective
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 63 Hidden Truth A series of dramatic programs based on authentic case histories demonstrating how the lie detector machine provided "The Hidden Truth". Over the series it featured, Harp McGuire, Guy Dolman, John Parker, Judy Farr, Moira O'Sullivan, Wayne Poulson, Al Garcia, Mark Kelly, Ed Hepple, John Mouchel, Dina Sheering, Muriel Steinbeck, Benita Harvey, John Mellion, Charles Tasman, John Llewelyn, John Berschel, Marian Johns, Al Thomas, Ron Roberts, Wendy Playfair, Coralie Neville, Grant Taylor, Lola Brooks, Malcolm Billings, Ethel Lang, Neva Carr Glyn Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make no claim to ownership or copyright. These recordings h 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 60 years on the air, with 59 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. Signal at Midnight · 2 Jun 2026
- 2. The Last Train Out · 9 Jun 2026
- 3. Night Broadcast · 16 Jun 2026
The Last Train Out
4 Aug 2026 · 48 min
The one everybody argues about.
Signal at Midnight
28 Jul 2026 · 1h 3m
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
A Room Above the Street
21 Jul 2026 · 26 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Long Silence
14 Jul 2026 · 41 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Dead Air
7 Jul 2026 · 56 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Sign Off
30 Jun 2026 · 19 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Case of the Missing Hour
23 Jun 2026 · 34 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Night Broadcast
16 Jun 2026 · 49 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1967–1967
Other series the network carried while Hidden Truth was on the air.
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 Hidden Truth
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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