What happens
Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Rochester and Phil Harris are sorting a heap of contest mail at Jack's Beverly Hills home in the days after Christmas. Letters arrive that are unkind about Jack, and a parrot named Polly keeps mangling her New Year greetings. Phil visits, Don Wilson and Larry Stevens drop by, and a visitor named Steve Bradley arrives to collect the contest prize money, which Jack fetches from a hidden vault. Later, Jack tells Mary a story about his own childhood school New Year's play. This is a 1945 episode of The Jack Benny Program, broadcast on NBC and CBS Radio on December 30, 1945.
Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills, around the turn of the year 1945 to 1946
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Larry Stevens, Eddie Anderson, Steve Bradley
Listen for: The parrot Polly repeating and mangling her New Year greetings, and Jack's vault scene with Steve Bradley
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.