Why you should start here
“History remembers the leads. We remember the rest.” is how the continuity announcer introduces it, and she is right. Episodes are engineered to stand alone: arrive anywhere in the run, the prelude will put you right.
Recorded in one session to wire, with the full effects bench: the 1908 stair, a recovered ship's whistle, and a rain tray the size of a dinner table.
Production notes
- Recorded live to wire, one take, corrections broadcast as appended letters.
- Engineered for standalone listening: the prelude reorients any new ear.
- Archived complete since 1983 on lacquer and wire copy.
- Broadcast at -3 dB relative to network standard, on director's orders.
Cast: three leads, rotating character pool of eleven.
Recent episode log
The full vault →| Date | Episode | Note |
|---|---|---|
| The Season of Eleven, act three | 2026-09-05 | The understudy performs her seventh first night; the flowers go to the wrong theatre. |
| The Season of Eleven, act two | 2026-08-08 | Rehearsals by day, raids by night, lines learned in the shelter. |
| The Season of Eleven, act one | 2026-07-11 | The understudy inherits a repertoire and a grudge. |
| The Understudy's Letter | 2026-06-13 | She writes to the leading lady. The leading lady writes back, twice. |
| Cold Reading | 2026-05-16 | An air raid audition. Everyone gets a part; nobody gets applause. |
| The Prompt Book | 2026-04-18 | What the understudy wrote in the margins, recovered from the Aldercott papers. |
| Curtain, Noon | 2026-03-21 | A matinee nobody was meant to survive reviewing. |
| The Wrong Theatre | 2026-02-22 | How she found the flowers, and what she did with them. |
| Encore, Reluctantly | 2026-01-24 | The one night the understudy asked to stop. The board said no. |
| The Eleventh First Night | 2026-12-26 | Season close. She takes no bow. The audience takes a vote. |
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