News & Information
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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
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...