What happens
Jean Newton, a Greenwich Village shop worker, meets David Grant, a stranger who wishes her good luck, and the two soon become partners in a sweepstakes ticket. Jean is engaged to Freddy, and David's offer to fund a honeymoon leads her into a trip with him. Their romantic and comic entanglements grow as Freddy and the gamblers become involved, and their luck and their feelings are tested. This Lux Radio Theatre production of the RKO comedy Lucky Partners was broadcast on September 25, 1944, starring Ronald Colman and Lucille Ball.
Greenwich Village, New York, and later a trip through upstate New York to Niagara Falls
Characters: Jean Newton, David Grant, Freddy, Aunt Lucy, Nick
Listen for: The sweepstakes ticket, the trip David proposes as a 'purely impersonal experiment,' and Freddy's confrontation with David
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.