What happens
Connie Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, is awakened early by her landlady, Mrs. Davis, who has heard noises in the kitchen. Connie finds a burglar named Joe Phillips raiding the icebox, and he explains that he has been surviving on stolen meals for weeks. Instead of calling the police, Connie gives him breakfast and, hoping he will repay his debts, arranges for him to fill in as the school custodian. Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden, is a CBS Radio comedy, and this episode aired on March 12, 1950.
Connie Brooks's boarding house and Madison High School
Characters: Connie Brooks, Mrs. Davis, Joe Phillips, Mr. Conklin, Harriet Conklin, Mr. Boynton, Walter Denton
Listen for: Joe Phillips's explanation of his meal-stealing and his plan to repay every kitchen he has visited
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.