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Why Great Stories Sometimes Need a Doorway
A Chesterton Radio listener nearly switched off a conversation about a 400-year-old English play. Instead, he stayed — and discovered that the discus…
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Daybreak — Old Wine, New Wineskins
It’s Friday morning at the Little Station on Commercial Street. Adrian and Clara begin with Christ’s curious words about old wine and new wineskins, …
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Chuck Schaden: The Man Who Kept the Radio Playing
Chuck Schaden did more than play old radio shows. Through Those Were the Days, Nostalgia Digest, countless interviews, and the remarkable Metro Golde…
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The Night They Deliver the Money | R.D. Wingfield | BBC Radio Thriller
It should have been a routine night at the bank.
A large consignment of money is due to arrive, and manager Mr. Robbins has procedures to follow, form…
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The Demon King — J. B. Priestley’s Strange Boxing Day Tale
It is Boxing Day in Bruddersford, and the local pantomime is heading for disaster.
The company is struggling; the audience is restless—and the actor w…
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When the Rules Disappeared The Real Moscow Behind East of the Map: The Fax Machine
In the first episode of EAST OF THE MAP, the trouble begins with something wonderfully mundane: an American company’s missing shipment and a fax mach…
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The End of the World Was Run from Omaha
Tonight, The Common Room is on the road in Omaha, Nebraska.
At first glance, Omaha seems an unlikely place to begin a story about the end of the world…
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The Defenders — Philip K. Dick’s Chilling Vision of a War the Machines Refused to Fight
For eight years, humanity has lived underground.
Above them, the nuclear war continues.
Or so they have been told.
The surface belongs to machines now—r…
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The Zeal of Thy House | Dorothy L. Sayers
What happens when the work of your hands becomes the measure of your worth?
Dorothy L. Sayers’ The Zeal of Thy House takes us into the rebuilding of C…
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When the Alarm Rings and Nobody Moves
The warning has been given.
Something is wrong.
And yet nobody moves.
Why?
In this Common Room Deep Dive, we explore normalcy bias — the strange and deep…
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