What happens
Tom Verney, a jobless man, answers an advertising job at the agency run by A.M. McGregor, a sharp-tongued woman. She hires him as her private secretary and sends him on a series of personal assignments, including an evening posing as her fiancé to win over Mrs. Castle, the wife of a soup company owner. McGregor is trying to win the Castle Soups account and later the Caldwell Tobacco account, which is controlled by Jonathan Caldwell, a man openly hostile to women. The story moves between the office, a restaurant dinner and a weekend at McGregor's cabin, where the two begin to show more personal feelings toward each other. This is the Screen Director's Playhouse radio adaptation of the 1951 film Take a Letter, Darling, starring Fred MacMurray and Rosalind Russell, broadcast on NBC on February 1, 1951.
New York City, at the Atwater McGregor advertising agency, a restaurant, a dress shop, and a country cabin
Characters: Tom Verney, A.M. McGregor, Mrs. Castle, Mr. Castle, Jonathan Caldwell, Mr. Doolie, Maggie
Listen for: The verbal sparring between Verney and McGregor and the way their working arrangement slowly turns personal
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.