What happens
Arthur Winslow, a retired banker, fights to clear his youngest son, Ronnie, who was expelled from naval college in England in 1912 for allegedly stealing and forging a five-shilling postal order. Ronnie's sister Catherine supports the family's campaign, which has been ignored by the Admiralty for months. Ronnie comes home to be questioned by Sir Robert Morton, a famous and expensive lawyer, who agrees to take the case and presses Ronnie hard about the locker room, the forged signature and his own memory. Morton then pushes for a petition of right so the boy can sue the Crown in open court. The family's finances and tensions strain under the fight. The Lux Radio Theatre production of The Winslow Boy stars Ray Milland, Dorothy McGuire and Brian Aherne, and aired on January 18, 1954.
England, 1912, at the Winslow family home and in the Admiralty and naval college affair
Characters: Arthur Winslow, Ronnie Winslow, Catherine (Kate) Winslow, Dickie Winslow, Grace Winslow, Sir Robert Morton, Desmond Carter, Violet
Listen for: Sir Robert Morton's cross-examination of Ronnie in the family's sitting room, where the boy's account of the locker room and the signature begins to shift
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.