What happens
Carol Ainsley, a literary agent, is handling the bestselling novel The Whirlwind, written under the pen name Anthony Street. When her studio client David Arthur demands an actor to play the lead in the film, Carol searches for a suitable man while the author's identity remains a secret. Henry Pepper, a reporter from Nickelbacker magazine, follows Carol and presses her for an article about her work. The Lux Radio Theatre production of What a Woman, starring Rosalind Russell and Robert Cummings, first aired on March 14, 1949.
New York City and Buxton, Pennsylvania, in the publishing and film business of the late 1940s.
Characters: Carol Ainsley, Henry Pepper, Michael Cobb, David Arthur, Lindsey McCain, Dean Shafer, Kinen, Professor Cobb
Listen for: Carol Ainsley's search for an actor to play the Whirlwind, and the reporter Henry Pepper's pursuit of her story.
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.