Daybreak — The True Vine, Radio Feuds, and Hitchcock’s Silence
A cool, cloud-covered morning settles over Atchison as Daybreak opens with Christ’s words from John 15: “I am the vine, you are the branches.” From there, Chesterton Radio journeys through one of radio’s greatest comic rivalries — the legendary Jack Benny and Fred Allen feud — before turning toward the moral tension and haunting silence of Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess.
Along the way, we visit Benedictine College, reflect on springtime in northeast Kansas, and explore how humor, conscience, faith, and ordinary daily life remain deeply connected.
Broadcast from Atchison, Kansas, Daybreak blends…
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