What happens
Screen Guild Theater presents a radio adaptation of the 1941 film Sergeant York, broadcast on January 18, 1942. Alvin York, a hard-drinking young man in the Cumberland mountains of Tennessee, is shaken by a fatal brawl and turns to religion. He struggles with his faith, his debts, and his hopes of buying a piece of bottom land to marry Gracie Williams. Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan and Joan Leslie star in the production, which the program presents as a tribute to the story of the Tennessee farmer who became a soldier in the First World War.
The Cumberland mountains of Tennessee, and later the battlefields of France during the First World War.
Characters: Alvin York, Gracie Williams, Pastor Rosier Pile, Ike Botkin
Listen for: Alvin York's struggle between his religious conscience and his sense of duty as the country calls him to war.
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.