Matinee Theater — 1945

James Hilton's soldier comes home with his memory gone, and builds a second life as a writer. Listen at the twenty-minute mark for Jory fumbling a line on live radio.

An English garden on a moonlit night in 1914, where an old man is said to talk with a ghost -- and where a thirty-year grudge stands between his niece and the young man courting her.

Du Maurier's second Mrs de Winter arrives at Manderley to find the first one everywhere, and a housekeeper determined she should feel it. The one week Victor Jory was on holiday: Gertrude Warner leads, with Blanche Yurka as Mrs Danvers and Martin Gabel as Maxim.

The life of Stephen Foster, who wrote Oh! Susanna and the song this broadcast is named for, and died a pauper before he was forty.

Salvage crews, shipwreck and passion off the nineteenth-century Florida Keys.

A celebrated violinist engages a young pianist to teach his daughter -- his wife's idea -- and then takes her on tour, and falls in love with her. The audience chose this one.

Alfred Noyes's ballad of a bandit and the woman who loved him, staged again -- it had been the premiere of this programme's earlier incarnation.

Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Marie Vetsera, in old Vienna. The broadcast is candid that it is telling one of the legends rather than the documented history.

Occupied France: a nun is drawn into the resistance, and into love with the American airman her convent is hiding. A request performance, and the broadcast where Jory told listeners the series would end in a fortnight.

John Paul Jones at the court of Catherine the Great, and the woman he found there. The last programme of the run -- and the second time the series had staged this script, the first being back in its opening month.