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My Favorite Husband

Katy and Roscoe

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

Life gets complicated when the Cugat’s maid Katy lands them is a mess.

Her long-distance boyfriend Roscoe is coming to visit for the first time in 15 years – and she’s not been too truthful about how she’s been living...

Starring Lucille Ball as Liz and Richard Denning as George.

The story of Liz and George Cugat, a happily married couple living in Sheridan Falls. Based on the novels by Isabel Scott Rorick

Liz Cugat …. Lucille Ball
George Cugat …. Richard Denning
Katy …. Ruth Perrot
Roscoe …. Hans Conried

The popularity of this radio series led to Lucille’s ground breaking TV sitcom role, I Love Lucy. This was to cement her long-running position as one of America’s favourite entertainers over several decades.

First broadcast in the USA on CBS Radio in November 1948. Show less

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