What happens
In 1860s Paris, chemist Louis Pasteur (Paul Muni) argues that invisible microbes spread disease, and that doctors should wash their hands and boil their instruments. His views anger the medical establishment, led by Dr. Chabonnet, and after a death in the hospital he is pressured to abandon his work on human disease. Pasteur's wife Marie and daughter Annette stand by him as he moves on to the problem of anthrax among the sheep of France. Broadcast on the Lux Radio Theatre, first aired November 23, 1936, the adaptation of the 1936 film is starring Paul Muni, Fritz Leiber and Crawford Kent.
Paris and rural Arbois, France, in the 1860s and 1870s
Characters: Louis Pasteur, Marie Pasteur, Annette Pasteur, Dr. Chabonnet, Dr. Radis, Jean Martell, Dr. Rossignol, Napoleon III
Listen for: Pasteur's arguments with the medical establishment over germs and hygiene, and the sheep vaccination experiment at Arbois
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.