Imperial Leader
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
51 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 51
- Genre
- docudrama
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 51 Imperial Leader : an ambitious 52-episode Australian radio serial that depicts the life of Winston Spencer Churchill, then Prime Minister of the British Empire. Produced in late 1940 and first aired in January 1941. "Imperial Leader" was first broadcast on Melbourne radio Station 3UZ 7:00 PM Monday January 13th 1941; in Sydney, it commenced in February 1941 on 2UE, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:15 PM. 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 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
13 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 95 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 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. Signal at Midnight · 19 Aug 2025
- 2. The Last Train Out · 26 Aug 2025
- 3. Night Broadcast · 2 Sep 2025
Night Broadcast
4 Aug 2026 · 31 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Last Train Out
28 Jul 2026 · 46 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Signal at Midnight
21 Jul 2026 · 1h 1m
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
A Room Above the Street
14 Jul 2026 · 24 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Long Silence
7 Jul 2026 · 39 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Dead Air
30 Jun 2026 · 54 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Sign Off
23 Jun 2026 · 17 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Case of the Missing Hour
16 Jun 2026 · 32 min
The one everybody argues about.
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