Dedication (poem): To Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Suspense

The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare

by G. K. CHESTERTON (1874 - 1936)

In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over the purpose of poetry with Gabriel Syme, who takes the opposite view. After some time, the frustrated Gregory finds Syme and leads him to a local anarchist meeting-place to prove that he is a true anarchist. Instead of the anarchist Gregory getting elected, the officer Syme uses his wits and is elected as the local representative to the worldwide Central Council of Anarchists. The Council consisting of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code name; Syme is given the name of Thursday... (Summary from Wikipedia)

Listen next episodes of The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare:
THE ACCUSER , THE CRIMINALS CHASE THE POLICE , THE DUEL , THE EARTH IN ANARCHY , THE EXPOSURE , THE FEAST OF FEAR , THE MAN IN SPECTACLES , THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY , THE PROFESSOR EXPLAINS , THE PURSUIT OF THE PRESIDENT , THE SECRET OF GABRIEL SYME , THE SIX PHILOSOPHERS , THE TALE OF A DETECTIVE , THE TWO POETS OF SAFFRON PARK , THE UNACCOUNTABLE CONDUCT OF PROFESSOR DE WORMS