The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
29 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 29
- Genre
- horror
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 23 This 36-chapter serial comes from Australian radio and was created by George Edwards, who was a major broadcast celebrity "down under" from the 1930s through his death in the 1950s. Edwards' versatility at playing several characters in distinctly different voices, even conversing between characters, earned him the title of "The Man of a Thousand Voices." 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 discov 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
8 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 Case of the Missing Hour · 20 Jan 2026
- 2. Sign Off · 27 Jan 2026
- 3. Dead Air · 3 Feb 2026
A Room Above the Street
4 Aug 2026 · 42 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Long Silence
28 Jul 2026 · 57 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Dead Air
21 Jul 2026 · 20 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Sign Off
14 Jul 2026 · 35 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Case of the Missing Hour
7 Jul 2026 · 50 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Night Broadcast
30 Jun 2026 · 1h 5m
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Last Train Out
23 Jun 2026 · 28 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Signal at Midnight
16 Jun 2026 · 43 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while The Hunchback of Notre Dame was on the air.
Same seasons
horror on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
Vintage
Beyond Midnight
PG57 EpisodesTwice weekly
Turn the lights out. That was always the instruction.
Vintage
Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
PG52 EpisodesWeekly
Turn the lights out. That was always the instruction.
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 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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