What happens
Chester Riley, a cheerful but scatterbrained family man, is captain of his district's Community Chest drive and is eager to impress. His wife Peg is skeptical of his get-rich schemes and his spending. Riley gathers donations, but when a cereal box stuffed with money is found in his kitchen, his neighbors begin to suspect he has been keeping the funds for himself. The Life of Riley is a radio comedy series, and this episode first aired on October 18, 1947, starring William Bendix as Riley and Paula Winslowe as Peg.
A middle-class neighborhood and the Riley household, during a Community Chest fundraising drive.
Characters: Chester Riley, Peg Riley, Gillis, Digby O'Dell, Junior, Mr. Gibson
Listen for: Riley's attempts to collect pledges, Peg's reaction to his money requests, and the cornflakes box hiding the donations.
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.