Aus 40 - Passage Of The Tangmar
(4,333 Sterne; 3 Bewertungen)
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 40 The cargo ship Tangmar departs Sydney, destination Jamaica, with a small party of passengers, strangers who are to share the fortune of an inheritance. Not all of them will survive the journey. Passage of the Tangmar is a riveting, adult mystery serial produced in Australia in 1960. Australian radio is on par with the British BBC productions – outstanding stories, impeccable acting and exceptional sound effects; Passage of the Tangmar is a superb example of that work. The 52-episode program about the Tangmar and its cargo of death is unusual, first that it’s in a 15-minute serial format that is typically reserved for children’s shows and old time radio soap operas. Second, unlike many children’s serials or a soap opera, Passage of the Tangmar has a conclusion with a solution, a story that caters to mystery connoisseurs. 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 not in the public domain, notify me and they will be deleted.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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Australian Radio Serials are Great
Alonzo Church III
(4 Sterne)
The first few episodes indicate this is a decently complex little serial. I think the description isn’t right. There have been Australian serials — 15 minutes in length — since the 30s. They often aren’t the usual soaps. One I bumped into was Frankenstein. Another Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In the 50s, a number of serials featuring the stalwart Maj. Gregory Keene also have the 15 minute length and a mind bendingly lengthy number of episodes. This sort of thing seems to be a good feature of Aussie OTR, and I hope the Internet brings us more. I prefer these to the Aussie reading of US scripts (like Gunsmoke and The Clock)
This was pretty good
degemike
(4 Sterne)
I realize that not everyone will have the time to listen to all 52 episodes, certainly not all at one time, but this was a pretty good mystery. Plenty of standard characters, like you would find in a classic murder mystery, except that they are on a ship sailing east across the pacific. The total time comes in at 9 hours 47 minutes. I downloaded the entire serial and listened to it, several episodes at a time over several days