What happens
In 1881 Vienna, Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria is arrested in a street riot and grows restless under the strict watch of his father, Emperor Franz Joseph, and his minister. At a fair he meets Marie Vetsera, a young girl from a noble family, and the two begin a secret romance that the court and her anxious mother seek to stop. This is an episode of the Lux Radio Theatre, first broadcast on January 9, 1939, and starring William Powell and Janet Gaynor.
Vienna and the Austrian countryside, 1881, during the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph
Characters: Crown Prince Rudolph, Marie Vetsera, Baroness Vetsera, Emperor Franz Joseph, Zepz, Prime Minister Taaffe, Stephanie, Countess Vetsera
Listen for: The tension between Rudolph's duty to the crown and his growing love for Marie, and the watchful pressure of the court on the couple.
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.