They cheered for Him on Sunday… and called for His death by Friday.
It begins with a parade.
Branches in the air. Voices raised. A king entering the city.
And yet—somehow—it ends with a cross.
This Palm Sunday, Chesterton Radio presents a special broadcast that traces the full arc of Holy Week through some of the most powerful voices in classic radio:
From G. K. Chesterton’s The Donkey—a poem that unlocks the strange, upside-down nature of Christ’s kingship…
To The Procession of the Palms, where the crowd gathers in expectation…
To The Bells of St. Mary’s, where ordinary life continues, almost unaware of what is unfolding…
And then—inevitably—into the shadow:
Dramatic portrayals of the Passion featuring Ethel Barrymore and Charles Boyer…
The haunting inevitability of The Betrayal and Crucifixion…
And the psychological descent of The Judas Clock, where betrayal is not sudden—but slowly chosen.
This is not just a collection of programs.
It is a single story.
A movement from triumph… to misunderstanding… to sacrifice.
In this Chesterton Radio original discussion, our hosts—one formed by the Byzantine tradition, the other by the Roman—explore the meaning behind the moment:
Why does the crowd cheer… and then turn?
What kind of king arrives on a donkey?
And why does truth become hardest to accept the closer it gets?
The Paradox of the Day:
We welcome the truth… until it asks something of us.
Holy Week has begun.
Stay with us.
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