What happens
Bob Hope stars as Monsieur Beaucaire, a palace barber in 1774 France who is hopelessly in love with Mimi, a chambermaid who dreams of rising in the royal court. When King Louis sends the Duke de Chartres to Spain to marry a princess, Beaucaire is caught in the king's chambers, and a mistaken identity leads him to swap clothes with the duke to save his own neck. The episode is part of the Lux Radio Theatre series, broadcast on April 14, 1947, and co-stars Joan Caulfield as Mimi.
Eighteenth-century France at the royal palace of King Louis, then the road to the Spanish border
Characters: Monsieur Beaucaire, Mimi, King Louis, Madame Pompadour, The Duke de Chartres, Queen, General Francisco, Princess Maria
Listen for: Bob Hope's barber Beaucaire mistaken for the king's suitor and his scheme to take the duke's place on the journey to Spain
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.