What happens
Luigi Basko, a newly arrived immigrant in America, has written to his mother in Italy boasting that he has become a millionaire. Now she has asked him for forty dollars, and he has no money to send her. Life with Luigi is a comedy series from the 1951 radio season, starring J. Carrol Naish and Alan Reed, and this episode aired on October 2, 1951. Luigi turns to his friends, Pasquale and Mr. Vacco, for help, and each of them offers a different kind of advice. Luigi then remembers an old pawn ticket and a savings bond he thinks he can cash in to raise the money.
A neighborhood in an American city, where Luigi Basko has recently arrived from Italy and lives among his immigrant friends.
Characters: Luigi Basko, Pasquale, Mr. Vacco, Rosa, Mr. Preston, Miss Balding, Mrs. Basko
Listen for: Luigi's attempts to raise forty dollars for his mother and the outlandish advice he receives from his friends.
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.