On this atmospheric Monday edition of Daybreak from Chesterton Radio in Atchison, Kansas, Adrian and Clara Markham welcome listeners into a warm and storm-shadowed spring morning along the Missouri River valley.
As restless skies gather over Kansas, they reflect on Christ’s final words in the Gospel of Matthew — the Great Commission given to a handful of uncertain men standing on a mountain beneath the departing Lord. From there, the conversation moves into today’s Chesterton Radio Morning Prayer and the quiet beauty of Ascensiontide itself: a season suspended between departure and promise.
The program also revisits a reverent old episode of The Ave Maria Hour devoted to The Ascension, exploring the forgotten sincerity and spiritual depth of mid-century religious broadcasting.
Then Adrian and Clara enter the strange and dreamlike world of The Adventure of the Enchanted Place, the newest New Adventures of Father Brown mystery from Chesterton Radio — a tale of melancholy beauty, hidden guilt, spiritual danger, and the curious places where wonder and sorrow meet.
Thoughtful, literary, mysterious, and deeply companionable, today’s Daybreak feels like old radio carried across darkening spring skies.
Broadcast from Chesterton Radio in Atchison, Kansas.
The Adventure of the Enchanted Place
On the morning of commencement at Benedictine College, the bells rang as if they were rejoicing for somebody else.
