No Time for Love: Screen Directors Playhouse (May 10, 1951)

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“No Time for Love” is an episode of Screen Directors Playhouse, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 10, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Photographer Kate Grant, played by Claudette Colbert, clashes with her managing editor Chris Lee, who sends her to photograph workers digging a river tunnel. There she meets Jim Ryan, a rough sandhog who dislikes her and resents her presence among the crew. Their antagonism grows as Kate tries to capture the men at work, and a mishap in the tunnel stirs tension between them. This episode is a 1951 radio adaptation of the film No Time for Love, broadcast on the Screen Director's Playhouse series on NBC on May 10, 1951.

New York City, including Kate's studio, a magazine office, and a tunnel under the East River

Characters: Kate Grant, Chris Lee, Jim Ryan, Hoppy, Henry Fulton, Roger, Darlene

Listen for: The bickering exchanges between Kate and Jim Ryan as their rivalry develops

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.