Kingston | Grace Gibson Shop https://gracegibsonradio.com Radio Serials Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:34:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 Portia Manning Series (of Portia Faces Life fame) https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/portia-manning-series-of-portia-faces-life-fame/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 13:55:59 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=9243 Download file size is 2,756 megabytes[/box] Buy The Haverlock Affair, Partners In Jeopardy, The Silent Witness and The Seed Of Evil and pay just $150.00.  (normal price for these CDs is $185.00)]]> Download file size is 2,756 megabytes[/box] Buy The Haverlock Affair, Partners In Jeopardy, The Silent Witness and The Seed Of Evil and pay just $150.00.  (normal price for these CDs is $185.00)]]> The Seed of Evil https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/the-seed-of-evil/ Wed, 09 Mar 2016 07:13:19 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=8015 (52 x 12 minute episodes) In every man’s heart there is the power for good and The Seed of Evil.]]> Portia Manning (of Portia Faces Life fame) discovers that a brilliant scientist, on the verge of a finding a cure for a dreaded disease, may, in the past, have murdered a woman.Portia endeavours to seek out proof of the scientist’s guilt or innocence. But standing in her way is the daughter of the missing woman, and a tycoon whose wife has contracted the dreaded disease and who is hoping for a miracle cure.
Before Portia can act on the result of her investigation, a tragedy occurs which resolves the scientist’s fate.

]]> The Haverlock Affair https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/the-haverlock-affair/ Fri, 30 Oct 2015 06:59:51 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=7139 Download file size is 1.4 gig[/box] 128 episodes - 2 CDs Sonia Haverlock is accused of pushing a man to his death during a lonely drive. When arrested, Sonia doesn’t deny her guilt; nor does she care what happens to her.]]> When Portia Manning is assigned to the case she is intrigued by Sonia’s attitude and that of the man who pushed the case onto her – Gregory Doren wants to protect his social and political image. Other powerful figures become involved as well, which only serves to
harden Portia’s determination to investigate the case more deeply and to prove that Sonia is just a pawn.

]]> The Silent Witness https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/the-silent-witness/ Tue, 11 Aug 2015 06:45:49 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=6282 Download file size is 1.6 gig[/box] Portia Manning is approached by a distraught young woman who claims she is afraid she will commit murder.]]> Portia can coax few details from Liza Paradine, but advises her that she needs a psychiatrist. When Liza’s sister-in-law Josephine is murdered the police suspect Liza, and despite admitting to injuring Josephine, Liza claims she fled the scene in horror of her actions.
Portia decides to do some investigating of her own before considering whether or not she will defend Liza.

The Silent Witness ­ Cast List

]]> Partners In Jeopardy https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/partners-in-jeopardy/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 23:00:12 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=5937 Download file size is 1.2 gig[/box] Many lawyers eventually become interested in politics and Portia Manning (of the Portia Faces Life series) was no exception. 104 Episodes]]> When this brilliant and beautiful lawyer was approached by a number of leading and influential citizens to be their candidate at the next election,
she could not deny her interest. If, however, she had known who was really behind her nomination and what the outcome would be, Portia would have most emphatically refused.

Partners In Jeopardy – Cast List

Portia Manning                            Lyndall Barbour
Christopher                                   Nigel Lovell
Dickie                                            John Norman
Lucretia                                        Amber Mae Cecil
Piers Mariner                              Ric Hutton
Calvin Calbert                             Bob McDarra
Conrad Bird                                 Tom Farley
Charmaine                                   Georgie Sterling

Directed by Eden Rutter

]]> Give Me No Pity https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/give-me-know-pity/ Mon, 18 May 2015 01:00:20 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=5996 Download file size is 1.5 gig[/box] 2 CD - 130 Episodes Jane Worthington’s somewhat unusual life came to a crossroad on Friday the 13th. Jane’s husband has been missing in New Guinea for over 3 years, presumed dead.]]> Her son has a debilitating bone condition. Now her treacherous ex-lover has bought the advertising agency where she works; her son’s condition is deteriorating and needs very expensive medical treatment; and then someone swears they’ve seen her husband alive but on skid row, just as she has agreed to marry a colleague. And – when Jane thinks things couldn’t get worse, she’s accused of murdering her husband. A very intriguing story!

Cast List Give Me No Pity – Cast List

Jane Worthington                           Dinah Shearing
Griff                                                 Matthew O’Sullivan
Eve                                                 Amber Mae Cecil
Derek                                              Mark Kelly
Jeremy (child)                                 Yvonne Matthews
Mary                                                Patti Crocker
Keith                                               Greg Apps
Miss Worthington                            Faye Anderson
Sgt Wright                                       Alan Faulkner
Charlie                                            Ron Roberts

Written by Raymond Neville
Directed by John Woodward
]]> For Infamous Conduct https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/for-infamous-conduct/ Sun, 03 Aug 2014 15:45:49 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=4226 Download file size is 1.5 gig[/box] When Belinda Barry’s wealthy husband was killed and her daughter, Gina, injured, Belinda kept secret the fact that she had been driving the car and looked for someone to take care of her, and Gina. Disk 1 Episodes 1–65   Disk 2 Episodes 66–130]]> She went to the small town of Eden to place Gina under the care of an old flame, Eliot Ashton. When they disagree about treatment for Gina and Belinda realises that she can’t take Eliot away from his wife, she turns vicious. However she forgets her anger when she hears that her late husband’s relatives are contesting his will, and leaves to fight for what she considers rightfully hers. Meantime Gina’s eyesight is failing rapidly and Belinda uses her charm to persuade another Doctor (Andrew Sommers) that Eliot had been derelict in his duty of care. A legal wrangle ensues and Belinda becomes entangled in dirty dealings and murder, making the final reckoning for her both tense and dramatic.

For Infamous Conduct – Cast List

Belinda Barry

Eliot Ashton

Miriam Ashton

Pam Casey

Pat Casey

Sgt Walker

Jerry Wade

Andy Sommers

Dr Carr

Sally Bloom

Emma

Gina

Wynne Nelson

Peter Gwynne

Fay Kelton

Patti Crocker

Robert McDarra

Nigel Lovell

Ron Roberts

Mark Kelly

Reg Collins

Noni Wood

Marion Johns

Beryl Marshall

Written by Kathleen Carroll
Directed by John Woodward

]]> The Smell Of Terror https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/the-smell-of-terror/ Wed, 26 Mar 2014 06:34:15 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/?post_type=product&p=3804 Download file size is 1.2 gig[/box] (104 episodes x 12 mins – around 20 hours of listening) Retired and having trouble adjusting to every-day life, Gregory Keen is quietly fishing when he receives a letter from a friend in the West Indies, inviting him to holiday there for as long as he wishes. 104 episodes, around 20 hours of listening]]> The island republic is ruled by a dictator, who receives word that an ex-armed forces type is heading to the island to help train revolutionaries.  When Keen’s host Denise refuses to sell her estate to the State, she receives threatening phone calls. She finds her staff will no longer come to work. Her chauffeur is beaten. Then Keen is framed and arrested.  The intrigue that follows finds Keen and Tommy Coutts return to their old ways as they deal with kidnappings, beatings and corruption.  This is the final of the Major Gregory Keen adventures. Previous titles in the series are Dossier on Dumetrius, Deadly Nightshade, Twenty Six Hours and Two Roads To Samarra.

]]> Dossier on Dumetrius https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/dossier-on-dumetrius/ Thu, 30 May 2013 12:25:17 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/shop/?post_type=product&p=2686 Download file size is 1.3 gig[/box] (104 x 12 minute episodes: 20 + hours) ... the story of a document now gathering dust in a silent room. Dossier on Dumetrius was one of Grace Gibson’s best-loved and most successful ‘spy’ serials.]]> It introduced Major Gregory Keen of MI5 who was the forerunner to James Bond. The story is set in Post War London and tells of the search for missing Nazi loot which was brought into England by a mysterious, vicious criminal Dumetrius, his gorgeous girlfriend Hedy Bergner and Yottie Bleem, a Butcher who thinks murder is fun. Keen, of course, falls in love with Hedy and only learns her true feelings when the story comes to its highly exciting climax.

An interesting and distinctive feature of this programme is the theme melody. Each episode opens with a few bars of whistling, the tune of which is then taken up by a full concert orchestra. The whistling of this theme serves throughout the story to identify Dumetrius and it is finally the cause of his dramatic capture.

Dossier On Dumetrius Cast List

Gregory Keen

Tommy Coutts

Dumetrius

Hedy Bergner

Peter Ridgeway

Hank Godowski

Dora

Bruce Stewart

Frank Waters

Guy Doleman

Dinah Shearing

Reg Goldsworthy

Alan White

Ruth Cracknell

Written by Lindsay Hardy

]]> Cattleman https://gracegibsonradio.com/product/cattleman/ Thu, 30 May 2013 11:59:56 +0000 http://gracegibsonradio.com/shop/?post_type=product&p=2677 Download file size is 2.3 gig[/box] (208 x 12 minute episodes: about 42 hours) Cattleman is a fast-moving story of the hard-riding, gentle-loving, cattle-duffing Ben McReady as he carves a place for himself in Queensland’s tough outback.]]> Ben is an old man, lying on his death-bed, when our story opens. The friends, old and young, who visit him cause him to recall events out of his past: together they make up the story of Cattleman, a tale which spans three generations.
It’s a chronicle of its time and must also of necessity be a story of war – since two world wards occurred during Ben’s life, but Cattleman is not a war novel. It contains convincing descriptions of life in the Australian outback: the creeping menace of the prickly pear; the suspense of young Ben McReady’s flights from the police; and some interesting details of the ‘correct and most successful’ methods of cattle duffing – a subject on which he is quite an authority! Yet it is the wonderful life and character of old Ben McReady which makes Cattleman such an enthralling tale. He is a kind of ideal Australian in his generosity, and his contempt for authority and affectation. Even his cattle duffing seems to be more an endearing failing than a serious crime. His life history, covering pioneering, marriage and wartime service is also true to the prototype of the ideal Australian.

 

Cattleman – Cast List 

The role of Ben McReady was originally played by Frank Waters who (for family reasons) had to move to Darwin. He was replaced by Nigel Lovell.

Reverent Coudrey

Dan Clancy

Anne McReady

Danny McReady

Biddy

Judith

Toby Warren

Anthea McReady

Charlie Turner

Jane McReady

Reid Calder

Ken McReady

Gregory Arnedale

Walter Sullivan

Tom Farley

Diane Perryman

Lance Bennett

Lyndall Barbour

Margo Lee

John Gray

Muriel Steinbeck

Bob McDarra

Wendy Playfair

John Unicomb

Martin Redpath

Ken Frazer

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