Old Time Radio Stories | Old Time Radio
Sep 13, 2026 · 34 min · 18 segments
Escape presents “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 29, 1948. Episode 51 adapts F. Scott Fitzgerald’s darkly fantastical short story, with a radio script by Les…
Victor SterlingHostI'd been going to St. Midas Prep School for a couple of years.
This was my second summer vacation.
I'd met this fellow Percy Washington during the winter and got to be pretty good friends with him.
Only I didn't know about his family or where he came from or anything like that.
Of course, I knew he must be rich.
All the fellows at St. Midas came from wealthy families.
So when he invited me to spend the summer at his home out west someplace, it was okay by me.
We'd been on the train overnight when he first mentioned it.
I don't even remember now what led up to it.
We'd been talking about first one thing and then another thing.
Um, Percy, exactly where is your home? I mean, you bought the train tickets.
It's in
Oh, yeah.
Pretty wild country, isn't it? Some of it is.
It's been settled for 150 years.
Indeed.
Oh, sure.
That's very interesting.
I sure do appreciate you're not making jokes about it the way some of the fellas do when I say I
come from Hades.
Ha ha.
Why, you know my father's...
I'd been going to St. Midas Prep School for a couple of years.
This was my second summer vacation.
I'd met this fellow Percy Washington during the winter and got to be pretty good friends with him.
Only I didn't know about his family or where he came from or anything like that.
Of course, I knew he must be rich.
All the fellows at St. Midas came from wealthy families.
So when he invited me to spend the summer at his home out west someplace, it was okay by me.
We'd been on the train overnight when he first mentioned it.
I don't even remember now what led up to it.
We'd been talking about first one thing and then another thing.
Um, Percy, exactly where is your home? I mean, you bought the train tickets.
It's in
Oh, yeah.
Pretty wild country, isn't it? Some of it is.
It's been settled for 150 years.
Indeed.
Oh, sure.
That's very interesting.
I sure do appreciate you're not making jokes about it the way some of the fellas do when I say I
come from Hades.
Ha ha.
Why, you know my father's...
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