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Chesterton Radio

Chesterton Radio

Welcome to Chesterton Radio—where stories, ideas, and wonder meet. Discover original fiction, Father Brown mysteries, classic radio drama, literary deep dives, thoughtful conversations, and daily Morning Prayer inspired by G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and the enduring tradition of Christian storytelling. Broadcasting from the little station on Commercial Street in Atchison, Kansas, Chesterton Radio offers a daily refuge from the noise of modern life. Whether you"re drawn to timeless mysteries,

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18:44

Mystery Theater Companion: Honeymoon with Death

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/10/01

What if you returned from your honeymoon, reported your husband’s murder—and everyone insisted you had never been married?From the Little Station on Commercial Street in Atchison, Kansas, Mystery Theater Companion returns to the earliest days of CBS Radio Mystery Theater with Honeymoon with Death, Episode 6, originally broadcast January 11, 1974.Lois Nettleton stars in a wonderfully unsettling mystery built around a question radio is uniquely equipped to ask: What happens when you know what you

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45:19

Daybreak | Stories & Ideas Worth Waking Up For

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/10/01

Good morning, and welcome to Daybreak from the Little Station on Commercial Street in Atchison Kansas - Chesterton Radio.We begin October with a fresh look at the stories, ideas, history, culture, and curious corners of the world that are worth a few minutes of attention.No shouting. No endless news cycle. Just an intelligent and occasionally unexpected way to start the day.Pour the coffee. The day is just getting started.Daybreak — a morning companion from Chesterton Radio. Get full access to

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28:25

Arsenic and Old Lace: Saturday Night Theatre Companion

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/10/01

There are some plays that radio has to reinvent.And there are others that seem almost to have been waiting for radio all along.Arsenic and Old Lace is one of those.A quiet house in Brooklyn.Two charming elderly sisters.A nephew who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt.Another nephew who is a theatre critic.And, somewhere in the house, a body.Actually, quite a few bodies.Tonight on the Saturday Night Theatre Companion, we return to Joseph Kesselring’s wonderfully improbable world of murder, manners,

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33:30

Daybreak

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/30

Good morning from The Little Station on Commercial Street. Daybreak is Chesterton Radio’s daily morning conversation, bringing together worthwhile stories from Newman Guide colleges and Chesterton Academies with Catholic life, books, history, classic radio, and culture from both sides of the Atlantic. It’s a warm, curious start to the day, with a thought worth carrying into it. Get full access to CHESTERTON RADIO at www.chestertonradio.com/subscribe

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32:16

Before the Collar: How Young Father Brown Learned to...

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/26

Before he became the quiet priest-detective who understood the secrets of the human heart, Father Brown was a boy who enjoyed being right.In this Chesterton Radio deep dive, we explore The Mislaid Parcel, the opening mystery in our original Young Father Brown series.A twelve-pound railway parcel has apparently become an eight-pound package. A widow’s livelihood is at stake. A railway porter falls under suspicion. And sixteen-year-old Paul Brown believes he has solved the case—until his certainty

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49:35

William Keenan: Spies, Saints & Secrets

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/26

A spy disappears into the shadows of Cold War Europe. A policeman walks a lonely beat. Three shepherd children in Portugal witness something that will change the world.What connects these seemingly different stories? The remarkable imagination of William Keenan.In this edition of Chesterton Radio’s Saturday Night Theatre Companion, we rediscover the English journalist, novelist, Catholic writer, and BBC dramatist whose work ranged from gripping espionage thrillers to police mysteries and powerful

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40:59

J. B. Priestley: The Dangerous Art of Ordinary Life

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/25

An innocent question at a dinner party. A respectable suburban household hiding an extraordinary secret. A family haunted by the past. And a clock that may not be telling the whole truth.Welcome to the remarkable world of J. B. Priestley, one of Britain’s most celebrated novelists, playwrights, and broadcasters.In this Saturday Night Theatre Companion, we explore the extraordinary imagination behind Dangerous Corner, Laburnum Grove, Eden End, The Linden Tree, Angel Pavement, Salt Is Leaving, The

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35:33

Nanci Griffith’s Other Voices: The Songs and Friends...

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/25

Nanci Griffith was one of America’s great songwriters. Yet at the height of her career, she did something remarkable: she turned the spotlight away from herself.With Other Voices, Other Rooms and Other Voices, Too, Nanci celebrated the writers, singers and songs that had formed her—from Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and John Prine to Kate Wolf, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Odetta and Sandy Denny.But the story is even richer on film.It begins with Nanci sitting on the diving board of her old high-school

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22:27

Sherlock Holmes vs. Shakespeare

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/24

Sherlock Holmes or Shakespeare?Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce take on murder in the moonlight, the Fifth of November and Christmas at Baker Street. Richard Burton goes to Agincourt. Orson Welles tackles Twelfth Night and Hamlet. Leslie Howard and Rosalind Russell bring us Much Ado About Nothing. Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson enter the world of Richard III. And the BBC returns to two of the greatest Sherlock Holmes stories ever written.In this Chesterton Radio Deep Dive, we count down eleven

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37:53

Was St. Augustine Drinking? Aristotle vs. Augustine

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/24

Aristotle tells us how to become good: practice virtue, form good habits, develop character, and learn to desire what is worthy.Then St. Augustine arrives.He steals pears he doesn’t even want. He agonizes over desire. He discovers that knowing the right thing doesn’t necessarily make us do it. He searches his own memory, argues with himself about his own will, and eventually asks a seemingly impossible question: Does the present moment even exist?No wonder a modern college student might read the two

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33:59

Superman, Batman & the Secret of Kryptonite

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/23

Before kryptonite became one of the most famous weaknesses in popular culture, it was part of an extraordinary chapter in The Adventures of Superman on radio.In the great 1945–46 saga, kryptonite falls into the hands of criminals, Superman faces the terrifying Atom Man, and pieces of the deadly mineral remain missing. To find them, the Man of Steel turns to someone who possesses something he doesn’t:Batman—the world’s greatest detective.What follows is far more than a forgotten Golden Age adventure

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43:22

Padre Pio: The Flying Friar

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/23

Padre Pio: The Flying FriarDuring World War II, Allied bomber pilots flying over southern Italy reportedly encountered something extraordinary: a Capuchin friar appearing in the sky, seemingly warning them away from the town of San Giovanni Rotondo.The friar was Padre Pio.And that was only one of the remarkable stories surrounding one of the most mysterious saints of the twentieth century.In this Chesterton Radio Deep Dive, we follow Francesco Forgione from a small Italian village to the Capuchin

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32:08

Candy Matson & Carter Brown: Two Detectives, Two...

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/23

Candy Matson lived on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.Carter Brown never existed.Yet put their mysteries side by side, and they seem to walk the same rain-slicked midnight streets.In this Chesterton Radio Deep Dive, we enter two remarkable corners of postwar detective radio. Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8209 gave American listeners something unusual for 1949: a smart, independent female private detective working the very real streets of San Francisco. Cable cars, Telegraph Hill, Fort Ord and California’s

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41:03

The Last Mysteries: One Last Case, One Last Chance,...

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/22

The Last Mysteries: One Last Case, One Last Chance, One Last KnockThere is something irresistible about the word last.The last case. The last escape. The last fight. The last train. The last séance. The last days of a civilization. And finally…the last man on Earth.In this Chesterton Radio Deep Dive, we travel across decades of great radio drama to discover why storytellers return again and again to that final moment when there may be no second chance.Along the way we’ll encounter Ronald Colman in

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39:02

Margery Allingham: The Strange World of Albert...

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/22

Agatha Christie gave us the puzzle. Dorothy L. Sayers gave us Lord Peter Wimsey. But Margery Allingham created something stranger.In this Chesterton Radio Deep Dive, we enter Allingham’s peculiar corner of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction through four remarkable radio dramatizations: The Case of the Late Pig, On Christmas Day in the Morning, Look to the Lady, and Black Plumes.At the center of much of Allingham’s world is Albert Campion—the deceptively foolish-looking gentleman detective who

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36:45

The Thing That Cries in the Night

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/22

A baby cries somewhere inside a Hollywood mansion.There is only one problem.No baby lives there.And when the crying begins, something terrible seems to follow.In this Chesterton Radio Deep Dive, we enter the strange world of Carlton E. Morse’s legendary radio adventure I Love a Mystery and one of its most unsettling stories: The Thing That Cries in the Night.Jack Packard, Doc Long and Reggie York arrive at a troubled household where family secrets, violence and an inexplicable sound begin to suggest

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42:09

THE DETECTIVE WHO SANG

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/22

What if Philip Marlowe stopped halfway through a case... and sang a song?In 1946, radio tried something almost impossible to imagine today.Carl Brisson — international singer, movie star and former leading man for Alfred Hitchcock — became a detective. A detective who sang.The short-lived series A Voice in the Night, sometimes remembered as The Musical Detective, mixed crime, comedy, nightclub atmosphere and popular songs into one wonderfully peculiar radio experiment.In this Chesterton Radio Deep

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31:40

IS BENEDICTINE COLLEGE REALLY GETTING A MEDICAL SCHOOL?

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/21

IS BENEDICTINE REALLY GETTING A MEDICAL SCHOOL?Two years ago, a medical school at Benedictine College sounded like an extraordinarily ambitious idea.Today, it looks considerably more real.The proposed Benedictine College School of Osteopathic Medicine has received Candidate Status from the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation—an important milestone on the path toward welcoming its first class in Atchison, Kansas.More than $50 million has been raised. More than 214 clinical training sites

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51:01

MATTHEW THE PUBLICAN

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/21

He was sitting at the customs post.To respectable society, Matthew was already a known quantity: a publican, a tax collector, a collaborator, a sinner. The sort of man religious people knew enough to avoid.Then Jesus stopped.“Follow me.”And Matthew got up.For the Feast of St. Matthew, Chesterton Radio goes beyond the familiar saint’s biography to ask a more provocative question: Why did Jesus choose Matthew the publican?Using two classic radio portrayals—Matthew the Publican from The Greatest Story

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38:52

A MURDER OF QUALITY

Chesterton Radio ·

2026/09/21

Before Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, George Smiley investigated a very different kind of enemy.Not a Soviet mole. Not an intelligence network.A murder at an elite English school.In John le Carré’s A Murder of Quality, Stella Rode fears that her husband intends to kill her. She sends a desperate warning to the editor of a small Christian magazine—and soon she is dead.The trail leads George Smiley to Carne: an ancient, prestigious school with its own hierarchy, traditions, prejudices and very definite

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