Voice of Bugle Anne: Screen Guild Theater (July 30, 1945)

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“Voice of Bugle Anne” is an episode of Screen Guild Theater, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 30, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Springfield Davis is a hunter who breeds foxhounds, and his favorite is Bugle Ann, whose voice he prizes above all others. When Davis and his son Benji come to the Camden place, the new neighbor Jacob Terry objects to hounds running on his land, and the quarrel grows bitter. Lionel Barrymore plays Springfield Davis, Noah Beery Jr. plays his son Benji, and Martha O'Driscoll plays Camden Terry in this Screen Guild Theater broadcast, first aired on July 30, 1945.

A rural area where hounds are bred and sheep are raised, with a fox hunt tradition and a feud between neighboring families.

Characters: Springfield Davis, Benji Davis, Camden Terry, Jacob Terry, Cal Royster, Bugle Ann

Listen for: The voice of the hound Bugle Ann and the rising tension between Springfield Davis and Jacob Terry over the hounds and the land.

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.