What happens
Louise Ramble and Rodney Crane meet as students in New Haven in 1911, and Louise accepts Rodney's proposal and they marry. Their life together in New York and later at Riverwood on the Hudson is shaped by children, financial strain and an epidemic that threatens their youngest daughter. Rodney's dissatisfaction grows as the years pass, and Louise faces the consequences of their marriage. The Lux Radio Theatre production of Roughly Speaking, first broadcast on 8 October 1945, stars Rosalind Russell and Jack Carson in the leading roles, and it is based on the life of a real woman across two marriages and two generations. The story then turns to Louise's second marriage to Harold, a man she meets at a masquerade party, and the risky greenhouse venture they build together.
New Haven and New York in the 1910s, then the Crane family's home at Riverwood on the Hudson, and later the greenhouse venture of the late 1920s.
Characters: Louise Ramble, Rodney Crane, Harold, Louise Crane
Listen for: Louise's courtship with Rodney on the sleigh ride, and the family's worsening illness scene at Riverwood.
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.