What happens
Lux Radio Theatre presents The Lady and the Tumblers, broadcast June 15, 1953, starring Fred McMurray. Jim, a traveling strongman known as Stone Crusher, and his young nephew Andy wander through Ohio in 1838, performing acrobatics in taverns. At a shabby inn they meet Shandol Carrick, a frightened young woman whose companion has been murdered. Jim and Andy take her away from the inn, and afterward the pair find a pouch of gold and a letter addressed to the dead man, Mr. Barnum. Jim and Andy set out for Blue Lion to learn more about her and the matter.
Ohio, spring 1838: country roads, taverns and inns, and the town of Blue Lion
Characters: Jim, Andy, Shandol Carrick, Mr. Barnum
Listen for: The inn scene where Jim and Andy rescue Shandol Carrick, and the discovery of the gold and the letter in the cart
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.