Love Letters: Lux Radio Theatre (April 22, 1946)

“Love Letters” is an episode of Lux Radio Theatre, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 22, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

In London, a few weeks after the war, Alan Quinton, a former soldier, drinks at a party in the flat of Dilly Carson and admits he once wrote love letters to a woman named Victoria for a fellow soldier, Roger Moreland. Alan travels to the country home he has inherited and then to Long Reach, where he hears troubling things about the Remington family. He meets a young woman named Singleton, a friend of Dilly's, who seems to have no memory of her past. The story is drawn from the Lux Radio Theatre's 1946 broadcast of Love Letters, starring Loretta Young and Joseph Cotton, and was first aired on April 22, 1946.

London and Essex, England, a few weeks after the end of the Second World War

Characters: Alan Quinton, Dilly Carson, Singleton, Mac, Meg, Beatrice Remington, Roger Moreland, Victoria Moreland

Listen for: Alan's conversation with Dilly at the party, and the scene at Long Reach when he questions the local man about the Remington family

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.