Out Of The Night
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
27 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 27
- Genre
- horror
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 17 Out of the Night. 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 version of each episode that I could, there may be better copies of some recordings available from collectors and dealers, and I encourage you to reach out to them if you are so inclined. If they are no 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. The Long Silence · 3 Feb 2026
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 10 Feb 2026
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 17 Feb 2026
Signal at Midnight
4 Aug 2026 · 49 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
A Room Above the Street
28 Jul 2026 · 1h 4m
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Long Silence
21 Jul 2026 · 27 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Dead Air
14 Jul 2026 · 42 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Sign Off
7 Jul 2026 · 57 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Case of the Missing Hour
30 Jun 2026 · 20 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Night Broadcast
23 Jun 2026 · 35 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Last Train Out
16 Jun 2026 · 50 min
The one everybody argues about.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while Out Of The Night was on the air.
Same seasons
horror on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Out Of The Night
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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