The Voice of Jack Seager

The Voice of Jack Seager

As a character, Jack Seager polarises people – love him or loathe him, he’s a compelling character.   The man who was the voice of Jack Seager actually hated him. Ric Hutton was the antitheses of Jack and so found it difficult to play the role at times. However,...
Early Cactus

Early Cactus

How Green Was My Cactus started life with such wonderful characters as King Bonza the Charismatic, Queen Hayseed, Pall Bearer the Treasurer, Little Johnny, Andrew Snowpea, Ian Sinkhole, Charles Pointless, Queen Bessie of Buckinghuge Palace, amongst many others.  ...
Remember Vida Lorne

Remember Vida Lorne

A young couple has been apartment hunting for weeks – without success until they find a penthouse apartment on top of a tall, aging building in central New York. The wife is ecstatic about the apartment and must live there. However she becomes obsessed with of the...
Volume 12 of The Passing Parade

Volume 12 of The Passing Parade

It’s here already! Volume 12 of The Passing Parade walked in the door late yesterday and has now been added to the shop.   On this Volume, John Doremus narrates more fascinating stories which include Genghis Khan, Tchaikovsky, Fatty Arbuckle, Louis Renault,...
Multi-Buy Options

Multi-Buy Options

We’ve been gradually introducing multi-buy options to our on-line shop.   This makes it easier to buy a variety of CD’s from the same series, eg The Castlereagh Line, Night Beat, Address Unknown, The Passing Parade and Yes, What?   By going to the shop and...
Volume 11 of The Passing Parade

Volume 11 of The Passing Parade

Volume 11 of The Passing Parade has just arrived – in stock and in the shop! More great stories presented by John Doremus, with tracks including the story behind Moby Dick, Sigmund Freud, Balmoral Castle, Billie Holiday and The Man They Couldn’t Hang. A total of 50...
Character Voices

Character Voices

Keith Scott and Robyn Moore – the voice stars of How Green Was My Cactus and many other radio and television shows, movies and ads – demonstrate some of their skills on these fabulous clips. Just click on the link to watch the interviews and see them at work… Keith...
Actors doing sound effects

Actors doing sound effects

Many Australian actors enjoyed doing sound effects as part of their role. Some of these included James Condon, Dinah Shearing, Amber Mae Cecil (daughter of director Lawrence Cecil) and Coral Lansbury (daughter of Oscar Lansbury and mother of Malcolm Turnbull). One who...
SFX

SFX

Ever wondered how sound effects were created before computers gave us everything at our fingertips?   Take a look at the original Grace Gibson Productions Sound Effects Door. This ‘door’ is actually a wooden cabinet with doors, switches, bells, locks, etc on its...
70 years since first show broadcast

70 years since first show broadcast

In the same way that radio stations mark their anniversary on the first day they went to air, Grace Gibson Productions is celebrating its 70th birthday today, being the date that Miss Gibson’s first production aired on Australian radio. The show was called ‘Here Are...
Track Lists

Track Lists

To answer a few enquiries…. Tracks lists are available for each CD of Address Unknown, Night Beat, The Passing Parade and Yes, What?. Just go to the product you want and at the bottom of the product description is a button ‘Complete Playlist’ which provides...
How Green Was My Cactus

How Green Was My Cactus

Cactus has now been in ongoing production for 28 years and recently overtook the ABC’s Blue Hills as the longest running radio series. Written by Doug Edwards, with assistance from Shane Edwards and Lindy Wilson, the voice stars are Keith Scott and Robyn Moore. This...
Track Lists

Reg’s Favourite Actors

We’ve been having some more great chats with Reg James about the early days of the Company (it’s heading towards our 70th anniversary as a business). Reg was saying his two favourite actors were Alan White and Michael Pate. He met them both soon after beginning work...
Blue Mountains Radio Players

Blue Mountains Radio Players

We regularly attend the live performances by the Blue Mountains Radio Players. On the last Sunday of the month this group performs two plays at the Mountain Heritage Hotel in Katoomba. The plays vary from American scripts of days gone by to recently written local...
Grace Gibson 70th anniversary

Grace Gibson 70th anniversary

Grace Gibson Productions will shortly celebrate its 70th anniversary – quite an achievement for a small business! Grace Gibson opened her door to business in 1944 with just herself and one employee as she prepared to take on the male dominated world of business...
Fathers Day

Fathers Day

Cattleman and Yes, What? are vying with each other as the most popular choices for Fathers Day gifts, with I, Christopher Macaulay and The Passing Parade hot on their heels! We’ve heard wonderful stories of Dads tinkering in their sheds whilst listening to their...

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