What happens
Great Gildersleeve is kept awake all night by a banging shutter and is in a bad mood at breakfast. After a quarrel with Bertie, the housekeeper, he visits Judge Horace Hooper, who suggests a hobby to calm his nerves. Gildy then decides to build a model ship inside a bottle, and he gets a bottle from Peavey's pharmacy. Gildy is also helped by Leroy, his nephew, and Lila Quimby. The Great Gildersleeve is an NBC radio comedy, and this episode aired on February 24, 1946. Harold Peary plays Gildersleeve, with Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle also in the cast.
Gildersleeve's home and Peavey's pharmacy in the fictional town of Summerfield
Characters: Gildersleeve, Bertie, Judge Horace Hooper, Peavey, Leroy, Lila Quimby
Listen for: Gildersleeve's sleepless complaints about the shutter and his plan to build a ship in a bottle
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.