Because of You: Lux Radio Theatre (November 2, 1953)

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“Because of You” is an episode of Lux Radio Theatre, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 2, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Christine Carroll, a young woman paroled from a women's prison after a youthful mistake with a criminal boyfriend, works as a nurse at a veterans hospital in Long Beach. There she meets Major Steve Kimberly, a recovering officer, and their romance grows quickly. Christine must decide whether to tell Steve about her past before they marry. This episode of Lux Radio Theatre, originally broadcast on November 2, 1953, stars June Allyson as Christine and Jeff Chandler as Steve.

Hollywood radio studio performing a dramatized story set in a women's state prison, a veterans hospital in Long Beach, and later Mexico and San Diego

Characters: Christine Carroll, Steve Kimberly, Mike Monroe, Mrs. Gordon, Dr. Breen, Mrs. Arnold

Listen for: Christine's decision about whether to reveal her prison record to Steve before their wedding

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.