And Now Tomorrow: Lux Radio Theatre (May 21, 1945)

“And Now Tomorrow” is an episode of Lux Radio Theatre, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 21, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Emily Blair, a wealthy heiress from Blairstown, Massachusetts, has lost her hearing after meningitis and is told by a Chicago specialist that nothing can be done. Back home, she is engaged to Jeff Stokes, but she hesitates to marry him. Dr. Merrick Vance, a physician who grew up on the wrong side of the river from her family's mill, offers an experimental treatment in a makeshift laboratory set up by her family's friend, Dr. Weeks. Emily agrees to the injections, and the two begin to spend time together. The Lux Radio Theatre production of And Now Tomorrow, from Rachel Field's novel, was broadcast on May 21, 1945, starring Alan Ladd and Loretta Young.

Blairstown, Massachusetts, and Chicago, in the years before the Second World War

Characters: Emily Blair, Dr. Merrick Vance, Dr. Weeks, Jeff Stokes, Janice, Aunt Martha

Listen for: Emily's first meeting with Dr. Vance on the train platform and the baggage truck incident

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.