What happens
Arnold Bolt, a furniture dealer, learns that his young son Edward has a condition that will keep him from walking unless he has an expensive operation abroad. Desperate to pay for it, Arnold turns to his partner Harry Simkins and a risky scheme involving the shop's insurance. Edward is the Lux Radio Theatre play Edward, My Son, first broadcast on 1953-08-17, with Walter Pigeon in the lead role. As the story moves forward, Arnold's rise in wealth and power grows, and his devotion to Edward begins to strain his relationships and his conscience.
England, from the early 1920s through the years after the Second World War, moving between a London home, a furniture shop, a boarding school and Arnold's office.
Characters: Arnold Bolt, Edward Bolt, Harry Simkins, Dr. Whitlow, Dr. Henry, Mary Bolt, Evelyn, Larry
Listen for: Arnold's shifting justifications for his choices, and the moments when Mary and Larry challenge him about Edward.
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.