What happens
Luigi Basso, a young Italian immigrant in Chicago, struggles to keep up with the installment payments on a radio he bought. The radio company threatens to take him to small claims court, and his friend Pasquale offers advice and a few loans. Luigi wrote to his mother that he was pleased she received the radio he sent her. Life with Luigi is a comedy series created by Cy Howard, starring J. Carrol Naish as Luigi, with Alan Reed as his father. The episode broadcast on June 12, 1949, and the transcript covers Luigi's letter, a visit to his friend Pasquale, a night-school class, and his troubles with the radio company and a pawnbroker.
Chicago, Illinois, in the late 1940s
Characters: Luigi Basso, Pasquale, Miss Balls, Mr. Schultz, Alderman Johnson, Judge Wilcox, Mr. Halsam, Mama Basso
Listen for: Luigi's troubles with the radio payments and the overcoat his father gave him.
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.