All-Time Favourites:

Cattleman (which is on special this month)

Cactus: In this insane world, Australia’s greatest radio satire puts things into perspective

Dossier on Dumetrius or indeed the complete adventures of Major Gregory Keen

The Castlereagh Line – you/Dad won’t be able to stop at the first volume…

Yes, What? – mischief and naughtiness abound with these tearaway school boys

The Passing Parade – the show that introduces people to history, even those who never appreciated it before

Newly discovered Dad favourites:

Verdict – actual court cases from around the world, and throughout history

Keith Scott – The Voices in My Head Won’t Stop and 21^st Century Blues (Keith’s talent is on full show in these releases)

Chickenman – the wonderful white-winged warrior is in a class of his own!

My Father’s House – short, sharp espionage with a twist

The Way Of The Cat – it appears the nice guy will finish last when he encounters a perfectly evil woman

Abel Cain Investigates – an ex commando turned private eye in London of the 1960s

Not sure what ‘sounds’ right? Go to the website and click on the ‘Listen’ tab where you can hear samples of the shows.

Still wondering? Contact us and talk through your queries. Hopefully we’ll help you find the perfect gift for Dad.

1. A very popular genre – whether it be modern, cold-war or even historical – a good ‘cloak and dagger’ story always works well.
2. A genre that works extremely well with the medium of radio – all those word pictures, voice inflections and sound effects create vivid mind pictures.
3. The images represented in these radio series meant that each individual listener created their own mind pictures – rather than images created by someone else.
4. Traditionally these series were broadcast later in the evening (so that the children didn’t go to bed and have nightmares).
5. The Adventures of Major Gregory Keen (the first of which is Dossier on Dumetrius) was one of the first post-war espionage series. Its outstanding success meant the follow-on adventure (Deadly Nightshade) was commissioned almost immediately. There are five adventures in the series.
6. Long regarded as a forerunner to the James Bond franchise, The Adventures of Major Gregory Keen were penned by Lindsay Hardy – who had met and mixed with some of the inspirations for his characters when he was in London.
7. Other popular titles in this genre include A Mask For Alexis, Goodbye Gwynnevere, The Red Gardenia and Undercover.
8. We also have a series titled I, Spy in which each episode is a self-contained story – supposedly a true story – in which a person or event is detailed.
9. As the behaviour of spies and commandos necessarily involves an element of crime – these stories are usually categorised as ‘Crime & Mystery’. Who are we to draw a line on what is crime and what is espionage??
10. We’ve been told on more than one occasion – that people who listen to these stories in their cars have missed their turn-off due to their focus on the plot.

In Twenty-six Hours, Major Gregory Keen – together with Sergeant Coutts – travels to Berlin to find and destroy some diaries written by an indiscreet American General which are so inflammatory that, if they were to fall into the wrong hands, could cause another World War.

The diaries fall into the hands of ex-German General, Manfred Von Remer, who decides to sell them to the highest bidder…the United States, Russia or Great Britain.  Von Remer offers them first to the Americans, but will deal only through British Intelligence.

And so…Major Keen of MI-5 is put on the case.  He is to make his first contact through a girl in a Berlin café and it soon becomes obvious to Keen that more than one group is after the diaries.

104 x ‘Quarter-Hour’ episodes