What happens
Jack Benny prepares for his birthday dinner party at his Beverly Hills home while Rochester and Mary Livingstone make ready for the evening. Several expected guests send regrets by telegram. Two men from the Lifetime Pot Pan and Kettle Company then arrive offering to cook a free demonstration dinner in Benny's kitchen, and he agrees. Benny's guests arrive, including violinist Isaac Stern and actor Ronald Colman and his wife Benita, and Benny and his friends Phil Harris and Dennis Day take part in the evening. The Jack Benny program, the 1947 radio comedy series, aired on NBC and CBS, with Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the lead roles.
Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills, California, on the evening of his birthday
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Isaac Stern, Ronald Colman
Listen for: The arrival of the two demonstration salesmen and the guests' reactions to the dinner
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.