What happens
Broadway stars Jane and Luke Drake are closing their latest hit, Isabella the Great, and Jane announces their retirement from the stage. Luke has vanished after the performance, and Jane's old suitor, banker Dudley Williams, tries to take advantage of the situation. Back at the apartment, Luke presents Jane with a new play, but their marriage strains when she discovers he has sold the country farm to finance a theatre of his own. The episode, a Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the 1945 Columbia film Bedtime Story, starring Greer Garson and Cary Grant, is broadcast on February 26, 1945.
New York City and Reno, Nevada, in the mid-1940s, among Broadway theatre people and a wealthy banker.
Characters: Jane Drake, Luke Drake, Dudley Williams, Eddie, Mike, Bert, Mabel Chadwick, Virginia
Listen for: The first act reveals why Jane wants to leave the theatre, and her sharp exchanges with Luke over the farm and the new play.
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.