The Sundowners is a 1953 Australian radio serial based on the novel of the same name by Jon Cleary.

[4][5] Cleary returned to Australia to live in October 1953 after several years away.

[6] The adventures of the Carmody family in outback Queensland: Paddy, Ida and their son Sean.

The Sunday Mail said the serial was inferior to the book, alleging "Cleary never hams his characters, prolongs his situations, or over dramatises his action.

The radio version lavishly does all three and commits the further solecism of introducing Cockney speech and accent where Cleary never dreamt at it.