What happens
Gildersleeve decides to take a day off work and buys a six-and-a-half-pound pot roast at Schultz's butcher shop, planning a dinner at home. Bertie cooks the roast in the kitchen while Gildersleeve climbs a ladder to deal with a window screen. Meanwhile Leroy and Marjorie are at odds over romance, and Gildersleeve's pride is tested by a rival. The story is part of the Great Gildersleeve radio comedy series, which aired on NBC on November 7, 1943, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle. The episode is a light domestic comedy about the small frustrations of wartime food rationing and neighborly rivalry.
Summerfield, a small town during wartime food rationing
Characters: Gildersleeve, Bertie, Leroy, Marjorie, Floyd, Judge Hooker, Mrs. Ransom, Horace
Listen for: Gildersleeve's reaction when he discovers the pot roast is gone
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.