What happens
Tony Carter, a student pilot, is grounded after a collision with Randy Britain, a rival flyer, and their rivalry turns into romance. Paul Turner, her instructor, watches over her career as she and Randy travel together. Lux Radio Theatre presents this 1943 broadcast of Flight for Freedom, starring Rosalind Russell, George Brent, and Chester Morris, from its September 20, 1943 airing. The story moves from the flight school to romantic getaways and then to the racing circuit, where Tony enters a competition with Paul's aircraft and faces a difficult decision about her future in flying. Her relationship with Randy becomes more complicated as the story continues.
Flight school and airfields in the United States, a Delaware and Virginia Beach getaway, and the Newark Airport to Los Angeles air race
Characters: Tony Carter, Randy Britain, Paul Turner, Johnny
Listen for: The collision on the first solo flight, Tony's conversation with Randy at the restaurant, and the moment she takes off in the air race
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.