Good morning—from a quiet corner of Atchison, Kansas.
Today on Chesterton Radio: Daybreak, we enter one of the strangest and most revealing stories ever brought to the airwaves.
In this 1938 Mercury Theatre broadcast, Orson Welles adapts The Man Who Was Thursday into something that feels less like a mystery… and more like a dream that refuses to resolve itself.
A poet is recruited to infiltrate a secret council of anarchists—only to discover that no one is what they seem, and that the deeper he goes, the less certain the world becomes.
But this is not a story about anarchists.
It is a story about masks.
About order and chaos.
And about the possibility that what appears to be madness… may, in the end, conceal a kind of hidden order.
In today’s broadcast, we follow the story beyond its surface—into the questions it raises about identity, illusion, and the strange way truth often arrives disguised as contradiction.
Stay with us.
The story has only just begun.
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