On this Monday edition of Daybreak from Chesterton Radio in Atchison, Kansas, Adrian and Clara Markham begin the week beneath warm winds and gathering storm clouds along the Missouri River.
The program opens with a reflective discussion of John 16:29–33 from the Douay-Rheims Bible, where Christ speaks the mysterious words: “Be of good heart, I have overcome the world.” The conversation explores courage, suffering, paradox, and the strange peace that can exist even in troubled times.
The hosts then reflect on today’s Chesterton Radio Morning Prayer before turning to the premiere episode of the new five-part Father Brown mystery serial, The Tower Without Footsteps — a quiet and haunting investigation blending classic Chesterton atmosphere with the suspenseful pacing of vintage radio drama.
In the second half of the broadcast, Adrian and Clara revisit two Thornton Wilder productions from Monday Night Playhouse: Queens of France and Love and How to Cure It, exploring forgotten theatrical traditions, loneliness, irony, and the fading beauty of old radio storytelling.
An atmospheric morning broadcast filled with mystery, literature, faith, memory, and the feeling of distant thunder beyond the river valley.
The New Adventures of Father Brown Episode One: The Tower Without Footsteps
A celebrated Catholic benefactor comes to a small college town with a fortune in one hand and a secret in the other. Before midnight, he is found dead in a locked tower. But Father Brown is troubled less by the corpse than by the living — because every witness seems to have feared the dead man before he died.
