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New Jerusalem
- By: G. K. Chesterton
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In New Jerusalem, Dale Ahlquist presents a captivating exploration of G.K. Chestertons philosophical journey through Europe to Palestine. He describes the landscapes and encounters that reflect the essence of the Holy Familys Flight into Egypt, noting the striking similarities with a modern twist The man is riding on the ass. Ahlquist delves into the complex dynamics of faith, suggesting that the real error of Muslims lies not in historical persecutions, but in their belief that a simpler form of Christianity could be universally appealing simply by stripping away its richness. He argues that ...
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Strange Riddles
- Stories of Puzzles and Intrigues
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, W. F. Harvey, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 25 hrs and 24 mins
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1. "The Mysterious Card" by Cleveland Moffett 2. "The Card Unveiled" by Cleveland Moffett 3. "The Problem of the Five Marks" by Melville Davisson Post 4. "A Terribly Strange Bed" by Wilkie Collins 5. "The Gold Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe 6. "Who Killed Charlie Winpole" by Ernest Bramah 7. "The Comedy at Fountain Cottage" by Ernest Bramah 8. "The Secret of the Smoked Spectacles" by William Le Queux 9. "The Hair" by A. J. Alan 10. "The Haunted Dolls’ House" by M. R. James, and many more....
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Strange Riddles
- Stories of Puzzles and Intrigues
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 25 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 26-05-15
- Language: English
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The Flying Inn
- By: G.K. Chesterton
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Explore a world where adventure meets societal critique, as stories unfold in unexpected ways, challenging conventions and sparking thought on cultural norms. This podcast offers a rotating collection of full-length audiobooks, presenting a different book each week. With each episode, listeners will encounter a variety of perspectives, time periods, and styles, highlighting the rich diversity of storytelling that transcends time. Whether you're seeking insight, learning, or simply an escape into a different reality, there's something here for everyone. New books are added weekly, keeping the ...
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Thirty Great Detective Stories
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Bramah, R. Austin Freeman, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
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A wonderful collection of 30 of the greatest detective and mystery stories ever written. Featuring all the great classic sleuths, including Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, Max Carrados, Dr. Thorndyke and Madame Rosika Storey. 1. 'Who killed Charlie Winpole?' By Ernest Bramah 2. 'The Blue Cross' by G. K. Chesterton 3. 'The Problem of the Five Marks' by Melville Davisson Post 4. 'The Comedy at Fountain Cottage' by Ernest Bramah 5. 'The Mysterious Card' by Cleveland Moffett 6. 'The Card Unveiled' by Cleveland Moffett
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Good Stories - horrible narration.
- By AMcT on 26-08-15
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Thirty Great Detective Stories
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Series: Dr. Thorndyke
- Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 07-08-15
- Language: English
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The Innocence of Father Brown
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The gentle, unassuming cleric ferrets out the guilty in such mysteries as "The Blue Cross", "The Honour of Israel Gow", "The Hammer of God", "The Queer Feet", "The Flying Stars", "The Secret Garden", "The Eye of Apollo", "The Invisible Man", "The Wrong Shape", "The Sins of Prince Saradine", "The Sign of the Broken Sword", and "The Three Tools of Death".
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The Innocence of Father Brown
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 25-11-13
- Language: English
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The G.K. Chesterton Classics Collection. Detective, Religion, Stories, Poetry
- The Innocence of Father Brown, Orthodoxy, the Ballad of the White Horse and Others
- By: G.K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Trevor O'Hare, Peter Coates
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
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The G.K. Chesterton Classics Collection brings together some of the most celebrated works of one of the 20th century's most influential writers, spanning his diverse contributions to detective fiction, theology, storytelling, and poetry. This richly illustrated edition includes key works such as The Innocence of Father Brown, featuring the iconic amateur detective whose sharp intellect and moral insight unravel complex mysteries; Orthodoxy, Chesterton's profound defense of Christian faith; and The Ballad of the White Horse, a lyrical epic about King Alfred the Great.
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The G.K. Chesterton Classics Collection. Detective, Religion, Stories, Poetry
- The Innocence of Father Brown, Orthodoxy, the Ballad of the White Horse and Others
- Narrated by: Trevor O'Hare, Peter Coates
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 23-11-24
- Language: English
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The Very Best Classic Crime Short Stories
- By: Edgar Wallace, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Bart Wolffe, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson
- Length: 3 hrs
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This audiobook contains a collection of crime short stories by the greats, including Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, and Edgar Wallace.
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Disappointed
- By d,i,y boy on 07-05-15
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The Very Best Classic Crime Short Stories
- Narrated by: Bart Wolffe, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release date: 25-06-12
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown is perhaps the most lovable amateur detective ever created. This short, shabby priest with his cherubic, round face attracts situations that baffle everyone - except Father Brown and his rather naïve wisdom. The twelve enthralling stories in this book take Father Brown from London to Cornwall, from Italy to France, as he gets involved with bandits, treason, murder, curses, and an American crime-detection machine.
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Badly chosen narrator
- By Ceripol on 23-07-15
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 28-02-12
- Language: English
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The Club of Queer Trades
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is best known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown. In The Club of Queer Trades, narrator 'Cherub' Swinburne and his friends, the eccentric former judge Basil Grant, and Basil's younger brother, private detective Rupert Grant, encounter six curious mysteries, each involving someone who makes a living in an extraordinary and bizarre - in the language of the time a 'queer' - way.
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Beyond me
- By JT on 12-09-20
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The Club of Queer Trades
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 18-02-19
- Language: English
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The Innocence of Father Brown Vol. 1
- By: M. J. Elliott, G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: J.T. Turner and the Colonial Radio Players
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
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From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest takes on bandits, traitors and killers. Why is he so successful? The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it.
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Not the most exciting sleuth stories ever.
- By EGM on 16-02-15
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The Innocence of Father Brown Vol. 1
- Narrated by: J.T. Turner and the Colonial Radio Players
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
- Release date: 09-09-14
- Language: English
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The Ball and the Cross
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Evan MacIan is a tall, dark-haired, blue-eyed Scottish Highlander and a devout Roman Catholic. James Turnbull is a short, red-haired, gray-eyed Lowlander and a devout but naïve atheist. The two meet when MacIan smashes the window of the street office where Turnbull publishes an atheist journal. This act of rage occurs when MacIan sees posted on the shop's window a sheet that blasphemes the Virgin Mary, presumably implying she was an adulteress who gave birth to an illegitimate Jesus.
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The Ball and the Cross
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 30-11-15
- Language: English
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A Short History of England
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Spirited and unpretentious, Chesterton's romp through English history recounts the thrilling story of a somewhat complicated nation, told through the soul of its people. From the Roman roads to the Magna Carta, the Reformation and the rise of democracy, Chesterton compellingly traces England's journey through history, often noting the persistent struggle between ordinary folk and overreaching elites.
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A Short History of England
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 28-10-25
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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In his second collection of stories about the deceptively unassuming Father Brown, Chesterton give us another 12 tales of misunderstanding, deception, theft, murder, mystery, and suicide, unravelled with modesty and compassion by the little priest-detective....
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 12-08-20
- Language: English
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: John Hastings
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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Effortlessly blending biography, philosophy and humour, Chesterton recounts with great imaginative depth the renowned Italian priest and theologist, Thomas Aquinas. Known as the ‘Angelic Doctor’, Aquinas was not just a scholar, but a passionate intellectual who was deeply in love with truth and natural theology.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Narrated by: John Hastings
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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The Flying Inn
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Ray Ritchie
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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Chesterton demonstrates his intense distrust of power and "progressives," railing against Prohibition, vegetarianism, theosophy, and other "dreary and oppressive" forces of modernity. In a spirited response to the government's attempt to curtail alcohol sales, Humphrey Pump (called Hump) a pub owner in the fishing village of Pebblewick takes to the road in a donkey cart. Accompanied by Captain Patrick Dalroy, a crimson-haired giant with a tendency to burst into song, Hump provisions the cart with a cask of good rum, a giant round of cheese, and the signpost from his pub, The Flying Inn.
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The Flying Inn
- Narrated by: Ray Ritchie
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 31-05-23
- Language: English
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The Innocence of Father Brown, Volume 1
- A Radio Dramatization
- By: M. J. Elliot - dramatization, G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: J.T. Turner, The Colonial Radio Players
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest takes on bandits, traitors, and killers. Why is he so successful? The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it.
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The Innocence of Father Brown, Volume 1
- A Radio Dramatization
- Narrated by: J.T. Turner, The Colonial Radio Players
- Series: The Innocence of Father Brown [Dramatization], Book 1
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 04-12-14
- Language: English
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Thomas Carlyle
- By: G. K. Chesterton
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Discover the intriguing life of Thomas Carlyle through the lens of another literary giant, G.K. Chesterton. This engaging short biography, originally published in 1902, begins with Chestertons clever and humorous reflections on Carlyles literary contributions, before transitioning into a straightforward account of the authors life. Enriched with numerous illustrations and portraits, this work is a delightful blend of wit and insight that brings Carlyles legacy to life. - Summary by David Wales
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Father Brown Mysteries
- Narrated by: Hannibal Hills
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 31-12-26
- Language: English
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The Incredulity of Father Brown
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Stephen Scalon
- Length: 8 hrs
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In "The Incredulity of Father Brown," G.K. Chesterton treats us to another set of bizarre crimes that only his "stumpy" Roman Catholic prelate has the wisdom and mindset to solve. As usual, Chesterton loves playing with early twentieth-century class distinctions, "common-sense" assumptions, and the often anti-Catholic biases of his characters. He loves showing, through his characters, how those who hold themselves superior to the "fantasies" of Brown's Catholic faith themselves devolve into superstitious blithering when faced with the tiniest of mysteries.
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- By Julia Foster on 16-05-20
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The Incredulity of Father Brown
- Narrated by: Stephen Scalon
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 06-11-19
- Language: English
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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In a London of the future, the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy have worn the human spirit down to the point where it can barely stand. When a pint-sized clerk named Auberon Quinn is randomly selected as head of state, he decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement. One man, Adam Wayne, takes the new order of things seriously, organizing a Notting Hill army to fight invaders from other neighborhoods. At first his project baffles everyone, but eventually his dedication proves infectious, with delightful results.
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 02-06-23
- Language: English
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