What happens
Cardinal Richelieu, the powerful minister of King Louis XIII, works to unite France by stripping the feudal lords of their lands and power. Count Barada grows jealous of the cardinal's influence and plots against him with the king's brother, Gaston, while Richelieu presses on with his plans for the nation. Richelieu's ward Lenore falls in love with the young officer Andre de Pont, and the cardinal arranges their marriage to keep the girl away from the king. The episode is a Lux Radio Theatre production broadcast from Hollywood on January 23, 1939, starring George Arliss and Florence Arliss.
17th-century France, at the royal court in Paris and the cardinal's new palace
Characters: Cardinal Richelieu, King Louis XIII, Count Baradas, Lenore, Andre de Pont, Joseph, Queen Marie de Medici, Gaston
Listen for: Richelieu's arguments with the king and Baradas over the lands of the nobles, and the cardinal's arrangement of Lenore's marriage to Andre de Pont
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.