What happens
Julie Weir and Ives Towner are young sweethearts in the small Vermont college town of Lindbergh in 1928. Ives wants to make himself worthy of her before they marry, so he asks her to wait. Impatient, Julie runs off on a stormy night and her life takes a different turn. This Lux Radio Theatre production stars Joan Bennett and Henry Fonda, with May Robeson, and features Margaret Hamilton and Louise Platt. It aired on May 30, 1938.
Lindbergh, Vermont, and later Paris, late 1920s
Characters: Julie Weir, Ives Towner, Aunt William, Carol, Michael Shaw, Mrs. Towner, Brenda Lane, Professor Towner
Listen for: The tender, impatient exchanges between Julie and Ives in the meadow, and Aunt William's warm but sharp commentary on Julie.
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.