What happens
Irma and her roommate Jane prepare for Jane's dinner date with Peter Guilford, a new man who works for the government in financial distribution. Jane is drifting away from Richard, who keeps stalling on marriage, and Irma offers her usual blunt advice. Meanwhile Al, who has been struggling to find work and collect unemployment, sees Peter as a useful contact and pressures Jane to help him. Professor Kropotkin and Mrs. O'Reilly also get caught up in the evening's plans. The series is My Friend Irma, broadcast by CBS Radio on April 19, 1948, with Marie Wilson as Irma and Cathy Lewis as Jane.
Irma and Jane's apartment and the city around it, in 1948.
Characters: Irma Peterson, Jane Stacy, Al, Chicken, Richard, Peter Guilford, Professor Kropotkin, Mrs. O'Reilly
Listen for: Irma's blunt remarks about Jane's love life and Al's scheme to get Jane to ask Peter for help.
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.