Arise My Love: Lux Radio Theatre (June 8, 1942)

“Arise My Love” is an episode of Lux Radio Theatre, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 8, 1942. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Tom Martin, an American aviator, awaits execution in a Spanish military prison after the Civil War. Suddenly a woman arrives claiming to be his wife and secures his pardon, and the pair leave Spain together. Augusta Nash, a reporter, soon becomes involved with Martin as he tries to escape the country and the consequences of what he has done. The Lux Radio Theatre presents Arise My Love, a romantic thriller starring Loretta Young and Ray Milland, on June 8, 1942. The story is performed before a live audience with Cecil B. DeMille as producer.

Spain in 1939, a military prison near Madrid, then Paris

Characters: Tom Martin, Augusta Nash, Father, Governor, Mr. Phillips

Listen for: The prison scene where Tom Martin awaits execution and the surprise arrival of a woman claiming to be his wife

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.