What happens
Selena Peake, left alone in Chicago after her father is shot in a gambling house brawl, takes a teaching post in the farm country of High Prairie. There she meets Pervis De Jong, a farmer who asks her to marry him. Their life together is one of hard labor on the land, and Selena's dreams for the farm clash with Pervis's stubborn ways. This episode of the Lux Radio Theatre dramatizes the novel So Big, with Barbara Stanwick, Preston Foster, Fay Ray and Otto Kruger. It first aired on March 13, 1939.
Chicago in 1908 and the farm country of High Prairie, later the haymarket in Chicago
Characters: Selena Peake, Simeon Peake, Julie Hemple, Mr. Poole, Ralph, Pervis De Jong, Dirk De Jong
Listen for: Selena's first conversation with Pervis at the church sociable, and the moment Pervis proposes to her
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.