Saturday Night Theatre

All Night Long: When Chesterton Radio Stayed Up With You

Mysteries, great detectives, Vincent Price, Pearl Harbor, Saturday Night Theatre—and the nights when we simply kept the radio playing.

Oct 16 • Chesterton Radio

The 30 Most-Listened-To Saturday Night Theatre Plays on Chesterton Radio

Murder mysteries, ghost stories, great British drama—and more than 3.8 million listens

Oct 15 • Chesterton Radio

The Trains Don’t Stop Here Anymore

Love, class, and the quiet passing of an old Britain

Sep 5 • Chesterton Radio

32:18

A Man Who Dies Twice

A Deep Dive into Margery Allingham’s The Case of the Late Pig — BBC Saturday Night Theatre

Sep 5 • Chesterton Radio

29:38

THE HARKER MYSTERIES: The Last Train to Brackenford

A briefcase arrives on the last train. Its owner does not.

Sep 2 • Chesterton Radio

The Night They Deliver the Money | R.D. Wingfield | BBC Radio Thriller

Four auditors. A dead telephone. And a fortune in cash on the way.

Sep 2 • Chesterton Radio

57:34

The Enemy Below: The Night History Broke In

A BBC wartime drama broadcast the day after JFK’s assassination — with the news of November 23, 1963 still attached

Aug 27 • Chesterton Radio

25:28

THE EMPTY HOUSE

Five milk bottles. Three departures. One man who never left.

Aug 27 • Chesterton Radio

Our West Ladyton Branch | R. D. Wingfield

Before Inspector Frost, there was West Ladyton — a quiet bank branch where something is very wrong.

Aug 27 • Chesterton Radio

56:01

Three Days of Frost | Before David Jason, There Was Leslie Sands

The forgotten 1977 BBC radio drama that introduced Inspector Jack Frost—and began one of British detective fiction’s most remarkable journeys

Aug 27 • Chesterton Radio

23:35

The Dying Boy and the Fall of an Empire

Holiday in Spała, Rasputin, and the Romanovs’ Last Years

Aug 25 • Chesterton Radio

36:11

Operation Pedestal — The Convoy That Saved Malta

A gripping BBC Saturday Night Theatre drama of courage, sacrifice, and survival in the Mediterranean

Aug 23 • Chesterton Radio

1:28:07

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