A locked room. A murdered man. Witnesses who insist no one could have entered or escaped. And yet someone did.
On today’s Daybreak, we enter the ingenious world of John Dickson Carr and The Hollow Man, one of the great impossible-crime mysteries, presented by BBC Saturday Night Theatre. We meet the formidable Dr. Gideon Fell, explore the strange pleasure of the locked-room mystery, and consider a wonderfully Chestertonian question: when the facts seem impossible, are the facts wrong—or have we mistaken an assumption for a fact?
We’ll look at Carr’s kinship with G. K. Chesterton and Father Brown, the famous “locked-room lecture,” and why radio may be the perfect medium for a mystery in which every footstep, closed door and moment of silence matters.
Also on Daybreak: Peter Rabbit returns. We introduce The Tale of Peter Rabbit and the Thin Ice, the first story in Chesterton Radio’s The New Adventures of Peter Rabbit—a new tale inspired by the little world Beatrix Potter created more than a century ago.
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Daybreak — something worth hearing before the noise of the day begins.
