What happens
Fibber McGee and Molly is an old-time radio comedy series, and this episode from October 20, 1942 on NBC Radio stars Harold Peary, Bill Thompson, Gale Gordon and Arthur Q. Bryan. Fibber McGee, at home with Molly, is stung by Abigail Uppington's boasting about her Mayflower lineage and sets out to prove his own family tree is just as distinguished. At the public library he finds the reference books no help, and he turns to the county clerk in Peoria for his birth certificate. The story follows his mounting frustration over his ancestry and a job offer from the mayor, Latrivia.
McGee's home and the public library in Wistful Vista
Characters: Fibber McGee, Molly, Abigail Uppington, Latrivia, Mr. Wilcox, Wallace Whimple, The Old Timer, Mayor
Listen for: Fibber's search through the library and his call to the county clerk in Peoria
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.