What happens
Benvenuto Cellini, a violent and proud sixteenth-century Florentine artist, has killed a man in a street brawl and faces the Duke's justice. He hides in his workshop with his model Angela, whose mother opposes their romance. Cellini secures her release from her mother by paying 50 ducats and takes her to the Duke's palace. Series: Screen Guild Theater, first broadcast January 21, 1940. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. stars as Cellini, with Paulette Goddard as Angela and Frank Morgan as the Duke, alongside Roy Darcy, Mary Forbes and Margot Stevenson.
Florence, Italy, around 1500
Characters: Benvenuto Cellini, Angela, Amelia, Angela's mother, Duke, Duchess, Octaviano, Matteo
Listen for: The Duke's comic pomposity and Cellini's boasting about his swordsmanship
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.