Casablanca: We’ll Always Have Paris

Chesterton Radio · Aug 17, 2026 · 39m

Of all the films Hollywood has given us, few have escaped the screen quite like Casablanca.

More than eighty years later, we still know Rick’s Café. We still hear Sam at the piano. We still remember Paris. And even people who have never seen the movie can quote lines from it—although sometimes they’re lines nobody actually said.

In this Chesterton Radio Common Room Deep Dive, we return to Casablanca not simply to celebrate a great movie, but to ask a larger question:

Why does Casablanca still work?

We explore Humphrey Bogart’s Rick Blaine, Ingrid Bergman’s Ilsa, Paul Henreid’s Victor Laszlo…