What happens
Jack Benny and his radio troupe are at Gardner Field near Taft, California, where they are performing for soldiers. Jack jokes with Don Wilson and Mary Livingstone while Phil Harris and Dennis Day trade gags about their weekend in town. Jack and the group then talk about a planned parachute jump, and the story turns to who will go up in the plane first and how the nervous cast handles the idea. This broadcast of the Jack Benny series first aired on May 23, 1943, on NBC and CBS Radio, and the leads are Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris.
Gardner Field near Taft, California, a military air field, during World War II
Characters: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Rochester, Frankie
Listen for: The banter about the parachute jump, with Dennis Day's nervousness and Jack's attempts to back out
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.