Back in 1932-1933, Groucho and Chico Marx starred in a radio show called Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel. In it, Groucho played the sleazy attorney, Waldorf T. Flywheel, and Chico played his assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli. One season was produced but only a few partial recordings of the program and one complete episode still exist.
The scripts to 25 of the 26 episodes, however, survived. A few years ago, BBC Radio put together a cast and re-created eighteen of them with Michael Roberts and Frank Lazarus as Groucho and Chico. Some liberties were taken with the old scripts — some rewriting, some ad-libbing. Every now and then, BBC Radio reruns the series and now is one of those times. For the next few days, you can hear Episode Two — sorry I didn't know about this last week — at this page. It'll be available for four more days and then it will be displaced by Episode Three, which will be listenable for a week, then Episode Four will be there for a week and so on. Thanks to Chris Collins for letting me know about this.
In the meantime, the player below will play you the audio of the only known complete original episode in existence…
