What happens
Sam Craig and Tess Harding, rival columnists at the same newspaper, clash in print over a sports remark. A chance trip to a World Series game turns their feud into romance, and they marry quickly. Tess, a famous radio commentator, brings Sam into her busy world of international news and refugees. Sam is drawn toward a life of quiet domestic happiness while Tess's career pulls her in other directions. This adaptation of the 1942 film Woman of the Year is presented by the Screen Guild Theater on April 19, 1943, with Spencer Tracy as Sam Craig and Catherine Hepburn as Tess Harding.
New York City, a newspaper office, a World Series ballpark, and the couple's apartment, during the early 1940s.
Characters: Sam Craig, Tess Harding, Gerald, Aunt Ellen, Phil, Dr. Lubeck, Clayton
Listen for: The sports-column feud between Sam and Tess, and the long-distance news calls that keep Tess busy.
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.