Life With Dexter
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
33 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 33
- Genre
- comedy
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 6 Life With Dexter during the 1950s and 1960s, which ran for more than 500 episodes and was also sold to New Zealand and South Africa radio, and also wrote a series of books collecting the scripts of the radio show including Life with Dexter, Dexter Loses His Head, Dexter Sings, More Life with Dexter, My Third Life with Dexter, The Desert Island Wreckers, Dexter's Court, Dexter's Fit, Dexter Gets the Point, Car-razy Life with Dexter, Dexter and Ashleigh Muddle On and Dexter Detects. 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 g 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
9 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. Dead Air · 23 Dec 2025
- 2. The Long Silence · 30 Dec 2025
- 3. A Room Above the Street · 6 Jan 2026
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 52 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 15 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 30 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 45 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 1h 0m
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 23 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 38 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 53 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while Life With Dexter was on the air.
Same seasons
comedy 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 Life With Dexter
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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