What happens
Lindsay McCarry presents a short collection of curious facts and anecdotes. He explains that clam chowder comes from the fishing folk of Brittany, France, and that its name derives from a cauldron. He notes that the word eternity appears only once in the Bible, in Isaiah. A brief story follows of a sixteen-year-old runaway, Eugene Roar, who is picked up on the highway by his father, Edward Roar, a truck driver, who has been driving home. The program then traces baseball's origins to earlier English games and a young man named Abner Doubleday. It also tells how kangaroo may have come from a native phrase meaning I don't understand, and closes with a melody from Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor that resembles the song Markita.
A radio program of odd facts, with stories set in Brittany, Cambridge Ohio in 1938, Cooperstown New York, and Australia
Characters: Lindsay McCarry, Edward Roar, Eugene Roar, Jean Roar, Abner Doubleday, Alexander Cartwright, Captain James Cook
Listen for: The story of Eugene Roar's return home, and the origin of the word kangaroo
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.