What happens
Peter Ibbetson, a young man raised in Paris and then sent to England by his uncle, Colonel Ibbetson, meets the Duchess of Towers and discovers that they share a childhood memory of a garden. Through a shared dream, Peter and the Duchess revisit the garden where they played as children, and their connection deepens. The episode is part of The Mercury Theatre on the Air, first broadcast on 1939-09-10, presented here as the Campbell Playhouse production starring Helen Hayes and Orson Welles.
Paris and London in the late nineteenth century, including a Paris inn, a London drawing room, and a dreamlike French garden.
Characters: Peter Ibbetson, Mary, Duchess of Towers, Colonel Ibbetson, Mrs. Dean, Mimsie
Listen for: The shifts between waking life and the shared dream, and Peter's attempts to understand what his uncle has told him about his parents.
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.