Speaking about Chesterton

Episode 8: CHESTERTON AROUND THE WORLD SERIES: “Chesterton and England”

Welcome to our new series “Chesterton Around the World.”  For the next 5 episodes, Gloria Garafulich-Grabois, director of the G.K. Chesterton Institute and professor Dermot Quinn, editor of The Chesterton Review will speak about Chesterton and various countries—starting with England, the country of his birth. In later episodes we will explore Chesterton and Ireland, Chesterton and Poland, Chesterton and France and Chesterton and Italy.
We begin with “England,” – the country of his birth, the country he loved and that he extensively wrote about including his very well-known, or perhaps better said, popular book “A short history of England.” As he states in the first paragraph of the Introduction of the book as to why he would write he would write this book, he states: “The answer is that I know just enough to know one thing: that a history from the standpoint of a member of the public has not been written.”

Episode 7: "Chesterton & Belloc--a Fastidious Friendship", a dramatic reading by Dr. James McGlone. Readers: Celtic Theatre Company. Commentary: Dr. Dermot Quinn

The dramatic reading tells the story of the fastidious friendship of two remarkable men, G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc. We encounter their youthful and engaging good humor, their personal devotion to their wives, the fighting tone of their journalistic and political conflicts, their hesitant thoughtfulness about the state of their own souls, and the gallant stance both took in the face of overwhelming odds

Episode 6: "The adventure of being born"

"The adventure of being born" --the G.K. Chesterton Institute the celebration of the 150th anniversary of G.K. Chesterton's Birth-- a conversation with Dermot Quinn and Gloria Garafulich-Grabois

Episode 5: Selections from G.K. Chesterton's poems

In this episode we will discuss:
The House of Christmas, Anti-Christ, or the Reunion of Christendom: an Ode and The Secret People
 

Episode 4: Selections from Chesterton’s “What I Saw in America” (1922)

Episode 3: Selections from Chesterton’s “Orthodoxy (1908)

In today’s episode we will be discussing Chesterton’s 1908 book Orthodoxy. The chapters we are going to cover are:
                             Chapter 1:         Introduction - “In Defence of Everything Else”
                             and
Chapter 2:         “The Maniac”
Facilitator: Dr. Dermot Quinn
Introduction: Gloria Garafulich-Grabois
 

Episode 2: Selections from Chesterton’s “Heretics” (1905)

In today’s episode we will be discussing the following chapters of G.K. Chesterton’s book Heretics:
“The Importance of Orthodoxy” (chapter 1)
“Christmas and the Aesthetes” (chapter 6)
“On Sandals and Simplicity” (chapter 10)
“On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family” (chapter 14)
Facilitator: Dr. Dermot Quinn
Introduction: Gloria Garafulich-Grabois

Episode 1: Selected stories from “The Innocence of Father Brown” (1911)

In today’s episode we will be discussing the following: G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown Stories from The Innocence of Father Brown:
“The Blue Cross”
“The Secret Garden”
Facilitator: Dr. Dermot Quinn
Introduction: Gloria Garafulich-Grabois