Golden Days of Radio
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1938–1987
752 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1938
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1938–1987
- Surviving broadcasts
- 752
- Genre
- music
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 118 Tribute to Richard Tauber. "Richard Tauber" (16 May 1891 – 8 January 1948) was born in Linz, Austria, to Elisabeth Seifferth, a widow and an actress who played soubrette roles at the local theatre, and Richard Anton Tauber, an actor; his parents were not married and his father was reportedly unaware of the birth as he was touring North America at the time. The child was given the name Richard Denemy (Denemy was his mother's maiden name); he was sometimes known as [Carl] Richard Tauber, and also used his mother's married name, Seiffert; but the claim by the Encyclopædia Britannica that he was ever known as Ernst Seiffert has no support from any of the 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
93 dated broadcasts across 89 years on the air, with 80 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 2024, in original transmission order.
- 1. Sign Off · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. Dead Air · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. The Long Silence · 3 Dec 2024
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 40 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 55 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 18 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 33 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 48 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 1h 3m
The one everybody argues about.
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 26 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 41 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
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