Prudential Family Hour

Winterset

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Prudential Family Hour presents a radio performance of Winterset, Maxwell Anderson’s poetic drama. The play follows Mio Romagna, the son of a man executed for a crime he did not commit, as he seeks to clear his father’s name and confronts the people connected to the case.

Anderson’s play blends a search for justice with a love story and questions of guilt, loyalty, and inherited reputation. Its heightened, verse-like dialogue gives the drama a distinctive theatrical character, while the radio presentation brings the story to listeners through spoken performance and sound.

The result is a serious, literary drama centered on a young man’s pursuit of truth and the personal costs of that pursuit.


This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.