What happens
Daisy Kenyon, a young magazine illustrator in New York, ends her long affair with Dan O'Mara, a married lawyer who keeps postponing their plans. Soon after, she meets Peter Lapham, a former boat designer back from the war, and the two begin a romance that quickly leads to marriage. The couple settles on Cape Cod, where Pete struggles with grief over his first wife's death and Daisy must come to terms with her past. This Lux Radio Theatre production of the 1948 adaptation of Daisy Kenyon stars Ida Lupino and Dana Andrews, and is presented on April 5, 1948.
New York City and later Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the late 1940s
Characters: Daisy Kenyon, Dan O'Mara, Pete Lapham, Lucille O'Mara, Marie, Mary, Harry, Dino
Listen for: Daisy and Pete's conversation in the Cape Cod cottage, when Pete reads the poem he wrote the night his first wife died
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.
