The Axe in the Orchard

Podcast: Chesterton Radio · Chesterton Radio

Opublikowano: 2026-10-19

What does it mean to love something—and is love enough to keep it alive? In Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, a family returns to an estate filled with memory, beauty, and a magnificent orchard. They love it. They cannot imagine life without it. And yet, while they remember, argue, dream, and delay, the world around them is changing. In this Listen with Gilbert Deep Dive, we enter Chekhov’s orchard with G. K. Chesterton as our companion—not because Chesterton wrote about the play, but because his ideas about tradition, inheritance, home, memory, and “the...