Simon Owens shows
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1978–1982
12 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1978
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1978–1982
- Surviving broadcasts
- 12
- Genre
- variety
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 166 This is another interesting website I came across. Simon Owens is a 3AW broadcaster who you can hear 10pm to midnight every Saturday. His website has over 600 clips from old to new radio shows. Here is just a sample of what he has got. The rest is here. https://omny.fm/shows/simon-owens-radio-archive/clips 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 av 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
4 dated broadcasts across 49 years on the air, with 48 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 · 19 May 2026
- 2. The Last Train Out · 26 May 2026
- 3. Night Broadcast · 2 Jun 2026
The Case of the Missing Hour
4 Aug 2026 · 26 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Night Broadcast
28 Jul 2026 · 41 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Last Train Out
21 Jul 2026 · 56 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Signal at Midnight
14 Jul 2026 · 19 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
A Room Above the Street
7 Jul 2026 · 34 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Long Silence
30 Jun 2026 · 49 min
The one everybody argues about.
Dead Air
23 Jun 2026 · 1h 4m
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Sign Off
16 Jun 2026 · 27 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1978–1982
Other series the network carried while Simon Owens shows was on the air.
Same seasons
variety 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 Simon Owens shows
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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