Hear from curators and specialists in soaps, thrillers and Grace Gibson serials as they break down the essential moments of radios’ Golden Days era in these excerpts from the NFSA podcast ‘Who Listens to the Radio?’

This is episode 8 of Devil's Holiday.

Inner Sanctum is a stand-out example of an American horror program that Aussie radio artists made their own.

This clip is an excerpt from episode 23 of Mostly Ghostly.

This clip is an excerpt from episode 8 of My Lady Waited.

Lynn Foster wrote and directed the 1946 radio serial Crossroads of Life featuring Peter Finch and Thelma Scott.

This 1946 radio drama, produced by Dorothy Crawford, tells the story of opera singer Nellie Melba’s life.

Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories was a long-running radio program that aired in America from 1937 to 1956 and in Australia from 1943 until 1961.

Queenie Ashton (as Lady Isabel) and Ronald Morse (as Francis Levison) in the 1939 radio serial East Lynne.

The 1939 play There is No Armour was written by Lynn Foster and performed at the Independent Theatre in Sydney.

It was adapted for radio and published in 1945.