What happens
Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, has only twenty dollars for Christmas shopping and a long list of people to buy for. She decides to spend it all on a gift for Mr. Boynton, the chemistry teacher, and her landlady Mrs. Davis, along with Walter Denton, both press for gifts of their own. Miss Brooks tries to keep her budget while the gifts keep changing hands around the school. The series is Our Miss Brooks, and this single episode first aired on CBS Radio on December 20, 1953, with Eve Arden in the title role and Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna among the cast.
Madison High School and Mrs. Davis's boarding house, in the weeks before Christmas
Characters: Miss Brooks, Mrs. Davis, Walter Denton, Mr. Boynton, Mr. Conklin, Mr. Stone, Harriet
Listen for: Miss Brooks trying to swap gifts she has already bought, and the shifting list of presents among her colleagues
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.