What happens
Jack Benny's Oscar-related mystery unfolds in this 1948 episode of the Jack Benny program, broadcast on NBC/CBS Radio on May 9, 1948, starring Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris. Rochester, cleaning out the attic at Benny's Beverly Hills home, finds old love letters and photographs from Benny's youth. Later, Benny visits Ronald Colman and Benita Colman, carrying a guilty conscience over a missing Oscar. Benny offers an apology and a carton of cigarettes, and he tells a story about being held up on the night he borrowed the statuette. The Colmans respond with a story of their own.
Jack Benny's house in Beverly Hills and the Colman home, with a rehearsal scene at Benny's house
Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Ronald Colman, Benita Colman, Eddie
Listen for: Benny's account of being held up outside the Colman house on the night he borrowed the Oscar
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.