June Bride: Lux Radio Theatre (August 29, 1949)

“June Bride” is an episode of Lux Radio Theatre, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 29, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Linda Gilman, editor of the home life magazine, and her former lover Carrie Jackson, a foreign correspondent, reunite at the magazine's New York offices and spar over their old romance. Carrie is assigned to write a feature about a small Indiana town wedding, and he travels there with Linda and the staff to prepare the story. Lux Radio Theatre presents this 1949 broadcast, adapted from the Warner Brothers film June Bride, starring Betty Davis and James Stewart and first aired on August 29, 1949. In Indiana, Carrie and Linda settle into the Brinker household, where the bride Jean and her younger sister Boo are preparing for the ceremony, and Carrie begins looking for a story angle.

New York City magazine offices and then the small town of Crestville, Indiana, in the late 1940s

Characters: Carrie Jackson, Linda Gilman, Mr. Brinker, Mrs. Brinker, Jean, Boo, Jim Mitchell, Bud

Listen for: The bickering between Carrie and Linda and the arrival of Jim Mitchell, the groom's brother, at the Brinker house.

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.