What happens
Jack Benny is at home in Beverly Hills the evening before the Hollywood Park Gold Cup race, trying to choose a horse to bet on. His valet Rochester, his girlfriend Mary Livingston and friends including Phil Harris and Don Wilson offer opinions, bets and jokes, while Jack frets over the field. Phone calls, visitors and a rehearsal for the radio show keep interrupting him. The Jack Benny program, an NBC and CBS radio comedy, is led by Jack Benny with Mary Livingston, Phil Harris and Eddie Anderson. The episode is set in 1945 and the transcript here covers only its first portion.
Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills, the evening before the Hollywood Park Gold Cup race
Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Larry Stevenson, Steve
Listen for: Jack's agonizing over which horse to bet on, and the running jokes with Rochester and Mary
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.