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Peter and the Wolf: When the Orchestra Told the Story
Before screens filled every quiet moment, a voice, a record player, and an orchestra could create an entire world. In this edition of Listen with Gilbert, we open The Listening Room, a new Chesterton Radio series rediscovering the records,
Daybreak: At the Gates of Dawn
This morning on Daybreak, we step into one of the most remarkable chapters of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows: “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.” Rat and Mole’s search for a missing child becomes an encounter with music, wonder, fe
Can We Build the Village Again?
Can We Build the Village Again? What would it mean to rebuild Christian culture—not as an argument or a political program, but as an actual place? Around Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma, families have been attempting something increasingly un
Listen with Gilbert: Digger — Can We Save the World?
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger gives Tom Cruise an unusual role: an enormously powerful man confronting a catastrophe he helped create—and convinced that he may be the man who can save humanity from it. Critics can’t seem to agree about the
The Open Door: When Chesterton Radio Became a Place
There was a time when listening to the radio required almost no decision at all. You turned it on. Something was already playing. Maybe it was a drama you had never heard, a familiar voice, a comedy, a piece of music, a prayer, or a story y
Listen with Gilbert: Ask Me No Questions
Some old radio programs survive because everyone remembers them. Others survive almost by accident—and then, decades later, find an audience all over again. Ask Me No Questions, from Lux Radio Theatre South Africa, is one of those remarkabl
Is It Worth Leaving the Comfortable Road? | Daybreak
Is college still worth it? And how do we know when something is worth leaving the familiar behind? On this Monday edition of Daybreak, we look ahead to the Newman Guide Virtual College Fair and the bigger question behind choosing a college:
Only Barbara: The Many Voices of Barbara Stanwyck
What happens to a great screen actress when you take away the camera? In this Listen with Gilbert Deep Dive, we hear Barbara Stanwyck across seven remarkably different radio performances: The Lady Eve, Ball of Fire, Remember the Night, Doub
Why Radio Drama Can Be Scarier Than Television
Television can show you the monster. Radio makes you imagine it. In this edition of Listen with Gilbert: Radio in Two, we explore one of the great secrets of radio drama: not being able to see anything may be the medium’s greatest strength.
The Man in the Photograph: Gunsmoke’s “Cavalcade”
A deputy arrives in Dodge carrying a seventeen-year-old murder warrant and an old photograph. Matt Dillon recognizes the face immediately: it belongs to Doc Adams. In this episode of Listen with Gilbert, we return to the January 31, 1953 Gu
The Little Poor Man — St. Francis at 800 | Daybreak
Eight hundred years after the death of St. Francis of Assisi, why does the Little Poor Man still seem so alive? This Sunday on Daybreak, from The Little Station on Commercial Street, we look beyond the familiar birds-and-birdbaths image of
Chesterton Radio University: St. Francis and the World Made New
How can a man who gives up so much become so joyful? In this opening episode of Chesterton Radio University, we explore G. K. Chesterton’s St. Francis of Assisi, especially “The Problem of St. Francis” and “Le Jongleur de Dieu.” Chesterton
Listen with Gilbert: The Hobbit Comes to Radio
Bilbo Baggins leaves the comfort of home and enters a world of riddles, songs, trolls, and dragons. In this Listen with Gilbert deep dive, we explore how the BBC’s 1968 full-cast production turned Tolkien’s The Hobbit into radio drama—from
The Animals’ God Experience
At Saturday morning at eleven, we open an old door again. Fr. Robert Griffin, C.S.C. — “Griff” — once filled this hour on WSND-FM at Notre Dame with his beloved Children’s Hour. And he had a wonderfully simple name for one of the strangest
The Man Who Came Back from the Dead | Daybreak
Seven years after Eleanor Vale’s husband supposedly died in a fire, a newspaper photograph arrives—and there he is among the living. This morning on Daybreak, we step inside Chesterton Radio’s new original mystery, Father Brown and the Man
ROM10: The Music That Woke the Radio Station
In the record library at WSND-FM at the University of Notre Dame, it was simply ROM10. Each morning, student announcer Paul would pull the record, cue the turntable, bring the station on the air, and let the brilliant brass of Johan Helmich
The Return of the Catholic Craftsman
What if a young Catholic didn’t have to choose between Aquinas and a toolbox? In this Chesterton Radio deep dive, we visit two remarkable experiments in Catholic education: the College of St. Joseph the Worker (https://www.collegeofstjoseph
Daybreak: Angels, Machines & the Unseen World
It’s Friday morning at Chesterton Radio, and October 2 brings an unusual question: how much of reality lies beyond what we can see or measure? On today’s Daybreak, we begin with the Feast of the Guardian Angels, wander through stories of te
Beethoven’s First Symphony: The Young Man Who Kicked Open the Door
Vienna, 1800. Beethoven is twenty-nine years old, Mozart is gone, Haydn is the acknowledged master—and an ambitious young composer is about to unveil his first symphony. In this inaugural episode of The Listening Room, we sit down with Beet
GI Jill vs. Tokyo Rose
Somewhere in the Pacific, an American serviceman turns the radio dial. From one station comes GI Jill—music, jokes, familiar voices and a little taste of home. From another comes the voice Americans would remember as “Tokyo Rose.” But the s
Mystery Theater Companion: Honeymoon with Death
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 d
Daybreak | Stories & Ideas Worth Waking Up For
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
Arsenic and Old Lace: Saturday Night Theatre Companion
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 bel
Daybreak
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, histor
Before the Collar: How Young Father Brown Learned to See the Truth | A Deep Dive
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 origina
William Keenan: Spies, Saints & Secrets
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 imagina
J. B. Priestley: The Dangerous Art of Ordinary Life
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,
Nanci Griffith’s Other Voices: The Songs and Friends That Made Her
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 wri
Sherlock Holmes vs. Shakespeare
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 How
Was St. Augustine Drinking? Aristotle vs. Augustine
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 kn
