Daybreak: The Impossible Room

Podcast: Chesterton Radio · Chesterton Radio

Opublikowano: 2026-10-13

A locked room. A murdered man. Witnesses who insist no one could have entered or escaped. And yet someone did. On today’s Daybreak, we enter the ingenious world of John Dickson Carr and The Hollow Man, one of the great impossible-crime mysteries, presented by BBC Saturday Night Theatre. We meet the formidable Dr. Gideon Fell, explore the strange pleasure of the locked-room mystery, and consider a wonderfully Chestertonian question: when the facts seem impossible, are the facts wrong—or have we mistaken an assumption for a fact? We’ll look at Carr’s kinship with G...