Clay City English Teacher: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (March 27, 1949)

“Clay City English Teacher” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 27, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Constance Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, is stuck doing extra work for her principal, Mr. Osgood Conklin, who has been overloading her. Her landlady, Mrs. Davis, and her student friend Walter Denton urge her to stand up to him. Meanwhile, the principal of Clay City High School, Mr. Jason Brill, arrives at Madison hoping to lure away one of its teachers. This episode of Our Miss Brooks, a CBS Radio series, first aired on March 27, 1949, starring Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna.

Madison High School and the surrounding town, including the school cafeteria, Mr. Conklin's office, and Mrs. Davis's boarding house.

Characters: Miss Connie Brooks, Mr. Osgood Conklin, Mrs. Davis, Walter Denton, Harriet Conklin, Mr. Jason Brill, Mr. Philip Boynton, Mr. Harvey Hastings

Listen for: Mr. Conklin's efforts to keep Miss Brooks from leaving, and Mr. Brill's competing offer.

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.