  We present new BeppoSAX LECS, MECS and PDS observations of five
lobe-dominated, broad-line active galactic nuclei selected from the 2-Jy sample
of southern radio sources. These include three radio quasars and two broad-line
radio galaxies. ROSAT PSPC data, available for all the objects, are also used
to better constrain the spectral shape in the soft X-ray band. The collected
data cover the energy range 0.1 - 10 keV, reaching ~ 50 keV for one source
(Pictor A). The main result from the spectral fits is that all sources have a
hard X-ray spectrum with energy index alpha_x ~ 0.75 in the 2 - 10 keV range.
This is at variance with the situation at lower energies where these sources
exhibit steeper spectra. Spectral breaks ~ 0.5 at 1 - 2 keV characterize in
fact the overall X-ray spectra of our objects. The flat, high-energy slope is
very similar to that displayed by flat-spectrum/core-dominated quasars, which
suggests that the same emission mechanism (most likely inverse Compton)
produces the hard X-ray spectra in both classes. Finally, a (weak) thermal
component is also present at low energies in the two broad-line radio galaxies
included in our study.
