Wuthering Heights: Screen Guild Theater (February 25, 1946)

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“Wuthering Heights” is an episode of Screen Guild Theater, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 25, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Heathcliff, a foundling brought to Wuthering Heights as a boy, grows up in love with Cathy, the daughter of the house. Their bond is strained when Cathy is injured after a night at the Linton estate and later takes an interest in Edgar Linton. Heathcliff returns from years away a wealthy man, and the two families are drawn into painful rivalry and rash choices. This Screen Guild Theater adaptation of Wuthering Heights aired on 1946-02-25, with Merle Oberon as Cathy, Cornell Wilde as Heathcliff and Reed Hadley as Edgar.

Wuthering Heights and the Grange on the Yorkshire moors, England, about a hundred years ago

Characters: Heathcliff, Cathy, Hindley, Edgar Linton, Isabella, Ellen

Listen for: Heathcliff's return to Wuthering Heights as a wealthy man and his announcement that he will marry Isabella

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.