What happens
Medical students Ben Doe and Elijah Howe Jr. live at Miss Susie Slagle's boarding house near the medical school in Baltimore around 1910. Elijah struggles to keep up with his studies while living in the shadow of his famous father, Dr. Howe, a professor of medicine. After a quarrel with his father, Elijah moves into the boarding house, where Miss Susie looks after the young men. The story follows the students through their first years of training, their romances and their doubts about becoming doctors. The play is from the Lux Radio Theatre, a weekly radio anthology of Hollywood film adaptations, and this adaptation of the 1946 Paramount film features Joan Caulfield, William Holden and Billy De Wolfe. The episode is broadcast on October 21, 1946.
Miss Susie Slagle's boarding house near the medical school in Baltimore, around 1910, with scenes at the school, a cafe, and the Wingate home.
Characters: Miss Susie Slagle, Elijah Howe Jr. (Lige), Dr. Howe, Ben, Brett, Pug, Professor Metz, Dr. Faber
Listen for: Miss Susie's line that none of her boys has ever failed, and Elijah's quarrel with his father.
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.