What happens
Luigi Vasco, a student in a Chicago night school class, learns that his beloved teacher, Miss Spalding, is resigning. Along with his classmates Pasquale and Schultz, he tries to persuade her to stay. Luigi writes to his mother in Italy about the class and the teacher he admires. Miss Spalding is struggling to pay her rent on a teacher's salary, which becomes the heart of the group's worries. Life with Luigi was a CBS comedy starring J. Carrol Naish as Luigi, with Alan Reed as Pasquale. The episode aired on April 24, 1951.
Chicago, a night school class and the city's board of education
Characters: Luigi Vasco, Miss Spalding, Pasquale, Schultz, Horowitz, Mr. Winters
Listen for: Luigi's letters to his mother and his attempts to keep Miss Spalding from leaving
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.