George Burns and Gracie Allen start a Victory Garden – Radio Classic 1943

28 Minutes of classic radio humour by two of the greats.

Listen here:

Gracie: You were right George, we’ll just a have a sweet little Victory Garden.

George: Good. We’ll plant some asparagus.

Gracie: And we’ll plant some beets on top of it.

George: On top of it?

Gracie: Ah huh. So when the asparagus start to come up, they’ll tickle the beets on the bottom and they’ll come up sooner.

Complete with music by Paul Whiteman’s orchestra – they play appropriately “That Old Black Magic” (soil reference) – and ads for Swan Soap, Gracie and George discuss setting up an urban farm.

Postman: You’re going to have a regular farm.

Gracie: We’re even going to raise chickens. In fact George is inside sitting on the eggs right now.

Postman: Your husband is going to hatch the chickens?

Gracie: Yep. But he doesn’t know it. You see I hid the eggs under the cushion of his easy chair.

Gracie: Ahh, I wonder if it will be hard for me to change from Gracie Allen the beautiful, sophisticated city girl to Gracie Allen the farmer?

Alternate link to the radio show here.