Alec Guinness plays the title character in Father Brown, a 1954 film directed by Robert Hamer and based on the mystery stories of G.K. Chesterton:
A rare sound newsreel film of G.K. Chesterton speaking at Worcester College in 1931:
(These are the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)
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“No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on with it, but strength enough to get it on. Can he hate it enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing? Can he look up at its colossal good without once feeling acquiescence? Can he look up at its colossal evil without once feeling despair? Can he, in short, be at once not only a pessimist and an optimist, but a fanatical pessimist and a fanatical optimist?”
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy