What happens
Reporter Casey Mayo, a human-interest writer for the Evening Chronicle, meets telephone operator Nora Larkin at the West Coast telephone company, where he is chasing a story about the switchboard girls. Nora, engaged to a war hero, spends her birthday evening drinking with artist Harry Preble at the Blue Gardenia, a restaurant where Mae and Louie work. Later, Nora's roommates Sally and Crystal notice her shaken and strange behavior. Dana Andrews plays Casey and Ruth Roman plays Nora in this Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of a Warner Brothers mystery; the air date is November 30, 1954.
Los Angeles, the West Coast telephone company office, a boarding apartment shared by telephone operators, and the Blue Gardenia restaurant
Characters: Casey Mayo, Nora Larkin, Harry Preble, Sally, Crystal, Mae, Louie, Captain Haynes
Listen for: Casey Mayo's pursuit of the story of the telephone operators, and Nora's increasingly guilty behavior after her birthday evening with Harry Preble
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.