What happens
Addy Ross, a small-town woman known for her taste and poise, has left town, and three of her friends receive a letter from her on a Saturday excursion boat trip. Deborah Bishop, Rita Manley and Laura Mae Hollingsway each begin to suspect their husbands. The episode follows the wives' growing doubts and the tensions in their marriages as they reflect on Addy and on the men in their lives. This Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the 1949 Joseph Mankiewicz screenplay for 20th Century Fox was broadcast on February 20, 1950, with Linda Darnell and Paul Douglas starring. The transcript covers only the first part of the broadcast.
A small town and a Hudson River excursion boat, 1940s America
Characters: Deborah Bishop, Brad Bishop, Rita Manley, George Manley, Laura Mae Hollingsway, Porter Hollingsway, Addy Ross
Listen for: Addy's letter read aloud on the boat, and the wives' arguments about their husbands
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.