What happens
Luigi Basko, a newly prosperous small businessman, receives thirty-five dollars and asks his friends for investment advice. At school, his teacher's class discusses how to use the money, and Luigi hears suggestions from Mr. Olson, Mr. Howard and Pascali. Pascali proposes stamps as a safe investment, claiming their price never changes. Luigi goes to the post office to buy stamps and meets Fred, the clerk, who helps him choose. The story follows Luigi's growing doubts about the advice he has been given and his plans for the money. This is an episode of the radio comedy Life with Luigi, first broadcast on March 27, 1951, with Jay Carol Nash in the title role and Alan Reed as Pascali.
Mostly in and around New York-area shops and a school classroom, including Luigi's antique shop, the post office and a bank.
Characters: Luigi Basko, Pascali, Mr. Olson, Mr. Howard, Mr. Schultz, Miss Balding, Fred, Rosa
Listen for: Luigi's conversations with Pascali about investing and his trip to the post office to buy stamps.
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.