What happens
Miss Brooks, a high school English teacher, is recruited by principal Osgoode Conklin to help raise money for children's playgrounds through a charity auction at Madison High School. Conklin puts her in charge of gathering donations and then of running the auction itself. Her efforts involve bargain-hunting with Mr. Boynton, Harriet Conklin's handbill campaign, and help from the wayward student Stretch Snodgrass. Conklin, his daughter Harriet, and the school staff are all drawn into the day's bidding and confusion. Eve Arden stars, with Gale Gordon as Conklin, in this episode of Our Miss Brooks, a CBS Radio comedy series first broadcast on February 5, 1956.
Madison High School, where a charity auction is held in the school gym to raise money for children's playgrounds.
Characters: Miss Brooks, Osgoode Conklin, Harriet Conklin, Mr. Boynton, Walter Denton, Stretch Snodgrass, Mrs. Davis
Listen for: Miss Brooks being put in charge of the auction, and the mix-up over the furniture delivered to the wrong house.
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.