Good morning from The Little Station on Commercial Street.
Today on Daybreak, we return to Friday night in 1987, when viewers could travel from the candlelit underground world of Beauty and the Beast to the neon streets of Miami Vice simply by changing the channel. Then G. K. Chesterton asks a wonderfully inconvenient question in “The Ugliness of Utopia”: before we become very efficient at putting everyone on stilts, shouldn’t we first decide whether anyone ought to be wearing stilts?
We’ll also look in on Homecoming Saturday in Atchison, an intriguing new link between Rome and Windsor, and a changing of the guard among NASA’s telescopes.
And tonight, Saturday Night Theatre presents Catherine Aird’s Henrietta Who?—an apparent hit-and-run, a quiet English village, and one discovery that makes a young woman question who she really is.
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A good story. A wider view of the day. And perhaps one question worth carrying with you:
Before we build a better world, have we decided what makes a world worth living in?
