What happens
Tracy Lord prepares to marry George Kittridge in Philadelphia, while Spy magazine editor Mr. Kid sends reporters Macaulay Connor and Liz Imbrie to cover the wedding. Tracy's first husband, Dexter Haven, arrives at the estate with the reporters and sets out to influence the proceedings. The episode is the Screen Guild Theater's 1947 radio presentation of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story, broadcast on March 17, 1947, and it stars Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart. The story continues as the household's guests and family members react to the arrival of the two journalists.
Philadelphia high society, the Lord family estate, and the Spy magazine office in New York
Characters: Tracy Lord, Dexter Haven, George Kittridge, Macaulay Connor, Liz Imbrie, Mr. Kid, Mike, Dinah Lord
Listen for: Dexter Haven's arrival at the Lord estate with the two reporters, and his conversation with Tracy about her wedding to George
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.
