What happens
Irma Peterson, a working girl sharing an apartment with her roommate Jane Stacy, learns from a newspaper report that an eccentric Minnesota farmer, Henry Peterson, has left $50,000 to an unknown niece named Irma. Jane suspects her friend may be the heiress, and an investigator from a lawyer's office soon comes to the apartment to question Irma. Meanwhile Irma's sweetheart, Al, reacts to the news in his own way, and the friends around the apartment begin to share in the excitement. The episode is from the My Friend Irma series, first broadcast on CBS Radio on April 5, 1948, with Marie Wilson as Irma and Cathy Lewis as Jane.
An apartment in New York City, where Irma and Jane share rooms, with visits to the building and the nearby neighborhood.
Characters: Irma Peterson, Jane Stacy, Al, Professor Kropotkin, Mrs. O'Reilly, Mr. Silk, Richard, Mr. Clyde
Listen for: Irma learning about the inheritance from the newspaper and the investigator's visit to the apartment.
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.