The Stuff of Dreams
Description
Mae Cook answers an ad in her local paper, not knowing what Mrs. Hilda Tipton, a recluse for 20 years, could possibly want from her. Mae finds that Mrs. Tipton spends her time daydreaming and wants Mae only to live her normal life, for which she's willing to pay a handsome salary if only Mae will report to her once a week and give her fresh material for daydreams. Not a naturally adventurous person, Mae soon finds the arrangement disturbing, but a friend, Eddy, an ex-convict, convinces her that he can fill Mrs. Tipton's needs very well.
A mysterious woman who keeps to herself pays a young woman to share stories about her everyday experiences, but trouble begins when the young woman's boyfriend shows up.
A strange reclusive woman hires a young lady to tell her the tales about her daily life, but things start to go south when the girl's boyfriend comes to visit.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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