Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Before the Collar: How Young Father Brown Learned to See the Truth | A Deep Dive
Before he became the quiet priest-detective who understood the secrets of the human heart, Father Brown was a boy who enjoyed being right.
In this Che…
3 weeks ago
William Keenan: Spies, Saints & Secrets
A spy disappears into the shadows of Cold War Europe. A policeman walks a lonely beat. Three shepherd children in Portugal witness something that wil…
3 weeks ago
J. B. Priestley: The Dangerous Art of Ordinary Life
An innocent question at a dinner party. A respectable suburban household hiding an extraordinary secret. A family haunted by the past. And a clock th…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Nanci Griffith’s Other Voices: The Songs and Friends That Made Her
Nanci Griffith was one of America’s great songwriters. Yet at the height of her career, she did something remarkable: she turned the spotlight away f…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Sherlock Holmes vs. Shakespeare
Sherlock Holmes or Shakespeare?
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce take on murder in the moonlight, the Fifth of November and Christmas at Baker Street. R…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Was St. Augustine Drinking? Aristotle vs. Augustine
Aristotle tells us how to become good: practice virtue, form good habits, develop character, and learn to desire what is worthy.
Then St. Augustine ar…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Superman, Batman & the Secret of Kryptonite
Before kryptonite became one of the most famous weaknesses in popular culture, it was part of an extraordinary chapter in The Adventures of Superman …
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Padre Pio: The Flying Friar
Padre Pio: The Flying Friar
During World War II, Allied bomber pilots flying over southern Italy reportedly encountered something extraordinary: a Cap…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Candy Matson & Carter Brown: Two Detectives, Two Continents, One Hard-Boiled World
Candy Matson lived on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.
Carter Brown never existed.
Yet put their mysteries side by side, and they seem to walk the same…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
The Last Mysteries: One Last Case, One Last Chance, One Last Knock
The Last Mysteries: One Last Case, One Last Chance, One Last Knock
There is something irresistible about the word last.
The last case. The last escape.…
3 weeks, 4 days ago