Strange Wills (xx) Audition and Sales Presention: Strange Wills (January 15, 1946)

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“Strange Wills (xx) Audition and Sales Presention” is an episode of Strange Wills, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 15, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

This is a sales presentation for Strange Wills, a transcribed radio series of dramatized stories drawn from unusual wills, presented in the voice of announcer Marvin Miller. Warren William stars in the series, with Carlton Young and Howard Culver among the supporting cast. The presentation promotes the show's range of romance, psychological drama, and mystery, and describes its writer, Ken Crippen, and producer, Robert Webster Light. Short dramatized scenes illustrate the stories, including a search for a missing airman, a mysterious concert pianist who inherits a fortune, a pirate's last will carved on a woman's back, and the tale of a violin named Emily. Information about the series is given for radio stations and sponsors who wish to carry it.

Various: a hospital near Munich, a Hollywood studio, a Scottish castle, Colombian jungle, a state prison, and 18th-century Italy and Vienna.

Characters: Marvin Miller, Warren William, Carlton Young, Howard Culver, Judy Morrison, Harry MacNeil, John Francis O'Connell, Lady Ruth Carroll

Listen for: Scenes from several stories, including the search for Harry MacNeil, the lady and the pirate, Seven Flights to Glory, Midnight on the Moor, Patsy Moran in the jungle, Margin for Love, and Emily.

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.