Remember the Day-Design for Scandal: Screen Guild Theater (November 15, 1943)

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“Remember the Day-Design for Scandal” is an episode of Screen Guild Theater, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 15, 1943. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Dewey Roberts, a candidate awaiting his acceptance speech in Washington, reminisces in his hotel suite with Nora Tranelle, his former school teacher from Auburn, Indiana. Nora recalls the day she met Dan Hopkins, a fellow teacher, when a scheduling clash over a baseball game and a matinee led to their first argument. The Screen Guild Players present Remember the Day, starring Olivia de Havilland as Nora Tranelle and Walter Pigeon as Dan Hopkins, adapted from a story by Philo Higley and Philip Dunning and broadcast on November 15, 1943. The first act is recounted here, as Nora and Dan's romance develops over the school year.

Washington's Mayflower Hotel, and flashbacks to Auburn, Indiana, a school and a summer resort

Characters: Dewey Roberts, Nora Tranelle, Dan Hopkins, Mr. Steele

Listen for: Nora's account of how she and Dan first met and argued at Auburn school

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.