Night Air

Sifting through bagloads of forensic data, matching up fingerprints, clues and motives, deducing whatever they can, those sleuths are on our case. Who knows what evil ... lies in the hearts of The Night Air as we accompany a clutch of famous detectives, investigators, cops and villains.
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Transcript

Track: Looking For Clues
Artist: Robert Palmer
Composer: Palmer, Robert
CD title: Just Can't Get Enough New Wave Hits of the 80s
CD label: Rhino R271696
Dur: 0' 30"

Track: Sam Spade Detective
CD title: Sam Spade Detective
CD label: Mark 56-638
dur: 1' 00"
artist: Howard Duff

Track: Charlie Chan
CD title: Charlie Chan - Original Radio Broadcasts
CD label: Mark 56-627
dur: 2' 00"

Track: Desire (bed)
Composer: Almedal/Sillitoe/Wolff/Dean/Hawken
CD title: Chilluminati Remixes
CD label: Jazzland 0602498146552
dur: 1' 00"
artist: Society London

Track: I Hate Crime
CD title: Murder, Mystery & Intrigue on Australian Radio
CD label: National Film & Sound Archive
dur: 2' 30"
artist: Wayne, K; Shearing, D.

Track: Crime and Punishment
Composer: Dostoyevsky, Feodor (author)
CD title: Crime and Punishment
CD label: Naxos NA300812
dur: 0' 40"
artist: Sheen, Michael

Track: Dick Tracy
CD title: Dick Tracy - Original Radio Broadcast
CD label: Mark 56=589
dur: 1' 00"

Track: I Hate Crime
CD title: Murder, Mystery & Intrigue on Australian Radio
CD label: National Film & Sound Archive
dur: 1' 00"
artist: Wayne, K; Shearing, D.

Track: Nick Carter
CD title: Nick Carter Master Detective
CD label: Mark 56
Dur: 0' 30"

Track: Study Number 40b
Composer: Conlon Nancarrow
CD title: Studies for Player Piano
CD label: Other Minds OM CD 1012
dur: 1'30"
artist: Conlon Nancarrow

Track: The Trumpet
Composer: Hank Levine, George Atkins & John Kennedy
CD title: Sing Along With JFK
CD label: Reprise
dur: 2'20"
artist: Hank Levine, George Atkins & John Kennedy

PART TWO

Track: Watching the Detectives
Composer: Costello, Elvis
CD title: Very Best of Elvis Costello
CD label: Universal 545103
dur: 1' 00"
artist: Elvis Costello

Track: Police and Thieves
Composer: Murvin/Perry
CD title: Revolution Rock
CD label: Sanctuary TJZCD214
dur: 1' 00"
artist: Murvin Junior

Track: Sorry, Wrong Number
CD title: Old Time Radio - All Time Favourites
CD label: n/s
dur: 10' 00"

Track: The Hypnotising Man
CD title: God Bless Tiny Tim
CD label: Geffen 7-28359
dur: 1' 00"
artist: Tiny Tim

Track: Sam Spade
CD title: Sam Spade Detective
CD label: Mark 56=638
dur: 3' 30"
artist: Howard Duff

Track: Dimples
Composer: Hooker/Bracken
CD title: Their First Album
CD label: Calendar R66-282
dur: 1' 00"
artist: Spencer Davis Group

Track: The Shadow
CD title: The Shadow - Original Radio Broadcasts
CD label: Mark 56=591
dur: 1' 00"

Track: Nightbeat
CD title: Radio Revisited
CD label: Columbia 4739372
dur: 0' 40"
ABC Cat: 86-370

Track: Don't Sit too close to the Television
Composer: Mickey Zetts
CD title: Till Someone Loses an Eye (PSA)
CD label: Superpickle Music Arts
dur: 0'29"
artist: Mickey's Ickies

Track: Me and a Gun
Composer: Tori Amos
CD title: Dictionaraoke
CD label: Dictionaraoke.org
dur: 2'06"
artist: Quahogs

Further Information

Who Killed The Old Bill - Radio Eye

Watching The Trees - Radio Eye

Nigel Buxton - Forensic Pathologist for Central Queensland - interview by Richard Fidler and originally heard on The Conversation Hour, 28.2.08

'After The Robbery' - a short story by Joseph Zaresky
A shocking act of vandalism at a factory leaves its aftermath.