What happens
Mary Lane, a young woman, secretly married Lieutenant James Emerson during the First World War, before he left for France. Now, in 1929, she is dying, and she has written him a letter explaining their history and their son Jimmy, which she has asked her friend Julia to deliver after she is gone. Meanwhile, James has lost his fortune in the stock market crash and faces ruin at home with his wife Blanche. The Lux Radio Theatre presents this adaptation of the film Only Yesterday, with Barbara Stanwyck as Mary and George Brent as James, with Dorothy Peterson as Julia and Jacqueline Wells as Blanche. The story moves back to 1917 as Mary and James first meet and fall in love.
New York and Virginia, 1917 to 1929, from the Virginia country club of 1917 to a New York apartment at the time of the 1929 stock market crash
Characters: Mary Lane, James Emerson, Julia Warren, Blanche, Jimmy, Norman Harris, Mrs. Lane, Deborah
Listen for: The letter Mary writes to James in 1929, which recalls how they met and married during the First World War
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.