What happens
Agatha Reed, a congresswoman, accepts an invitation to receive an honorary degree at Good Hope College, her alma mater, where she was once expelled. Dr. James Merrill, the college president, was once her romantic partner there, and their renewed meeting stirs old feelings. Matt Cole, a war photographer with his own history with Agatha, arrives on assignment for a magazine. This episode of Lux Radio Theatre, aired January 14, 1952, stars Barbara Stanwick, Robert Young and Frank Lovejoy, adapted from the stage play Goodbye My Fancy by Faye Kanin.
Good Hope College, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C., in the early 1950s
Characters: Agatha Reed, Dr. James Merrill, Matt Cole, Woody, Claude Griswold, Dr. Pitt, Ginny Merrill, Miss Wood
Listen for: Agatha's letter and telegram exchange with Dr. Merrill, and Matt Cole's photograph of the Orient Express
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.