Alphabet Soup
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
Broadcasts
30
Cadence
Seasonal
Rated
PG
Since
1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 30
- Genre
- comedy
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 2 Recently discovered this program “Alphabet Soup” which was produced and presented by George Rolfe for a Community Radio station in Melbourne. It is a most interesting journey through the Nostalgic music of the past, letter by letter. 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 Last Train Out · 13 Jan 2026
- 2. Night Broadcast · 20 Jan 2026
- 3. The Case of the Missing Hour · 27 Jan 2026
- 01
The Long Silence
4 Aug 2026 · 35 min
- 02
Dead Air
28 Jul 2026 · 50 min
- 03
Sign Off
21 Jul 2026 · 1h 5m
- 04
The Case of the Missing Hour
14 Jul 2026 · 28 min
- 05
Night Broadcast
7 Jul 2026 · 43 min
- 06
The Last Train Out
30 Jun 2026 · 58 min
- 07
Signal at Midnight
23 Jun 2026 · 21 min
- 08
A Room Above the Street
16 Jun 2026 · 36 min
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