What happens
Bill Cummings, a machinist newly home from the Army, and his wife Susan, who works in a New York bookshop, try to build a life together after the war. They live in a small apartment in the building of Susan's mother, Martha, and her husband Hank, and the couple depend on the pay of their modest jobs. Bill has trouble finding work, and the pressure of unemployment begins to strain his confidence and his marriage. This episode of Lux Radio Theatre stars Joan Fontaine and Mark Stevens in the play From This Day Forward.
New York City in the years after World War II, including a tenement building in the Bronx, a bookshop, and an employment service office.
Characters: Bill Cummings, Susan Cummings, Martha, Hank, Jake, Tilly, Timmy, Mr. Higlow
Listen for: Bill's attempts to find work at the employment office, and the growing strain between him and Susan as his unemployment continues.
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.