In a previous post I mentioned Chesterton Station. The show features John Walker as Chesterton who is at a railway station where he encounters various fellow writers - George Bernard Shaw, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dorothy Sayers, and more.
As a Christmas gift I received the first episode, "The Golden Key."
It's actually a two-part episode, with Chesterton arriving in the station, and delivers a long monologue highlighting key events in his life, and his literary, philosophical, and spiritual beliefs.
I watched it and got the sense it may have been intended as just a one-time program ending with, well, his passage into the afterlife. But it worked, and maybe that lead to the subsequent episodes featuring him returning to the station to encounter fellow writers. Or maybe the creators did hope for a series.
Anyway, "The Golden Key" is delightful. As a fan of Chesterton, I found it reminding me of life details and favorite works by him. For my wife, who is not a reader of Chesterton, it was a wonderful introduction to him.
Indeed, I recommend it and the other episodes as a way to introduce Chesterton to a wider audience.
The episodes are shown on Thursdays at 5 p.m. on EWTN - unless preempted by special programming.
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