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Quiet, Please presents “A Red and White Guideon,” episode 36 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on February 9, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System drama features Ernest Chappell.

Veteran cavalryman Noah Wellman recalls A Troop of the Seventh Cavalry in 1875 and the red-and-white guidon that came to embody comradeship, memory, and duty. With frontier camp life, bugle calls, and cavalry tradition, the story follows the lingering burden carried by a soldier who cannot forget his troop’s flag.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:48 Original Broadcast
29:53 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Clarissa,” episode 46 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on April 19, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System drama stars Ernest Chappell as Jesse, with Bruno Wick and Peggy Stanley.

A young writer rents an inexpensive room in an isolated, deteriorating house, where its secretive longtime owner and the distant sound of an unseen daughter’s singing create an atmosphere of growing unease. Cold rooms, creaking stairs, and a closed door upstairs deepen the mystery.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:38 Original Broadcast
30:48 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “In Memory of Bernadine,” episode 25 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast November 24, 1947. This local archival recording preserves Wyllis Cooper’s intimate radio drama for the Mutual Broadcasting System.

On a long postwar journey home, an unnamed man reflects on Bernadine, the woman he loves, and the memories that have shaped him. Ernest Chappell stars as the narrator, with Nancy Sheridan as Bernadine and Melville Ruick as Harry Foster, in a restrained, bittersweet wartime story written and directed by Cooper.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:45 Original Broadcast
24:48 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Light the Lamp for Me,” episode 67 of the classic radio series Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on September 26, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for ABC, the episode stars Ernest Chappell.

Historical writer Manfred, celebrated for the vivid detail of his books, discovers an ancient bronze oil lamp hidden within the walls of California’s San Fernando Mission. Its mysterious power offers an extraordinary connection to the past—but one governed by unsettling rules. Pat O’Malley, Floyd Buckley, and Kathleen Niday co-star.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:42 Original Broadcast
30:00 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “The Third Man’s Story,” originally broadcast September 6, 1948. This is episode 64 of Wyllis Cooper’s classic radio series.

In a remote, fertile valley, a reflective narrator recalls a youthful act of folly amid family labor, pride, favor, and faith. This Genesis-inspired reimagining of Cain and Abel was written and directed by Wyllis Cooper and stars Ernest Chappell, Lon Clark, Arthur Kohl, and Alice Reinheart. It was the final Quiet, Please broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:41 Original Broadcast
22:37 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “A Ribbon of Lincoln Green,” episode 11 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast August 30, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, the drama stars Ernest Chappell as Captain Hood.

During the May 1940 retreat toward Dunkirk, an American officer serving with Britain’s King’s Royal Rifle Corps becomes separated from his unit amid the ruined streets of Calais. In a wartime memory where blackout, bombardment, and legend begin to overlap, he encounters echoes of Robin Hood’s world, including Alan-a-Dale and Maid Marian.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:50 Original Broadcast
29:32 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Very Unimportant Person,” episode 77 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on December 5, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for ABC, the drama features Ernest Chappell, with Nancy Sheridan, James Monks, and Frank Thomas.

In the immediate shadow of the atomic age, Tom and Ruth flee north from the Washington area in an Air Force airplane as catastrophe unfolds below. Searching the radio for signs of survivors, they confront an increasingly unsettling journey through a darkened, uncertain world.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:38 Original Broadcast
30:14 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Kill Me Again,” episode 24 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast November 17, 1947. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, this Mutual Broadcasting System sustaining broadcast stars Ernest Chappell as hard-up writer Joe Davis, with James Monks as the unsettlingly businesslike Mr. Hellman.

When Joe casually offers to sell his soul for a million dollars, Mr. Hellman arrives with cash and a bill of sale in triplicate. What follows is a darkly comic supernatural tale of contracts, technicalities, and the unnerving fine print of an impossible bargain.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:43 Original Broadcast
24:36 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Gem of Purest Ray,” episode 50 of Quiet, Please, originally broadcast on May 17, 1948. Written and directed by Willis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, the drama features Ernest Chappell.

A detective-sergeant’s questioning of Dr. Eleftherios Moraitis opens onto a strange account of a deep-sea expedition, a custom diving bell, and a mysterious jewel linked to the legend of Atlantis. What begins as a police interrogation becomes an unsettling voyage into ocean depths and buried knowledge.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:41 Original Broadcast
29:54 Closing

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Quiet, Please presents “Never Send to Know,” episode 40 of the series, originally broadcast on March 8, 1948. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper for the Mutual Broadcasting System, this unusual supernatural mystery stars Ernest Chappell as private investigator Mr. Kramer.

Kramer has little use for hard-boiled detective conventions—until an unlikely client arrives: a ghost who wants his own murder solved. With money to pay but only fragments of memory to offer, the dead man sets Kramer on a strange and unsettling investigation. Edgar Stehli and Nancy Sheridan also appear.

Quiet, Please presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
29:21 Closing

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