Private Worlds: Screen Guild Theater (January 28, 1940)

“Private Worlds” is an episode of Screen Guild Theater, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 28, 1940. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Dr. Alex McGregor and Dr. Jane Everest work at Brentwood Hospital for the insane when Dr. Charles Monet arrives as the new superintendent. He dislikes women doctors and reassigns Jane, while Monet's sister Claire begins to unsettle the staff, especially Alex's wife Sally. Sally tries to help a troubled patient named Carrie Flint, and tensions between the staff grow. This episode of Screen Guild Theater, broadcast on January 28, 1940, stars Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer and Isabel Jewell. The story of the Philip Barry play Private Worlds unfolds in these early scenes.

Brentwood Hospital for the insane, Oxford

Characters: Dr. Alex McGregor, Dr. Jane Everest, Dr. Charles Monet, Sally McGregor, Claire Monet, Carrie Flint

Listen for: Dr. Monet's arrival and his dismissal of Dr. Everest's position, and the first hints of Claire Monet's effect on Sally and Alex

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.