Dimestore Radio Theater: Our President’s Day Special!

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Another holiday means another round of episodes from the Lux Radio Theater and The CBS Radio Mastery Theater, to offer you two different ways to spend the day.

First, we hear a version of, Blossoms in the Dust, the “true” story of a Edna Gladney, who found homes for orphaned children, and campaigned to change Texas law to make life easier for children without legitimate parents. The veracity of the details of the story are certainly in question, but Edna’s dedication to the cause is the true element this story is based on.

After the ups and downs of that tale, we return to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, with a story called A Lady Never Loses Her Head. A combination of gaslighting and re-enactment efforts work to cause an American woman recently married to a well-to-do British man to consider that she might be haunted by headless ghosts from the past. But not even the truly creepy behavior of her husband seems to tip her off… at first…

 

Enjoy!