Ep. 1143, The Absence of Mr. Glass, by G.K. Chesterton
The Classic Tales Podcast
B.J. Harrison
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Can Dr. Orion Hood help the ingenuous Father Brown solve a problem with one of his parishioners? G.K. Chesterton, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.
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Father Brown is often considered a sleuth on a par with Sherlock Holmes. In dipping into his wealth of knowledge garnered from countless confessions from thieves and other criminals, Father Brown has heard it all, and has a keen intellect and a sharp eye, despite his simple appearance.
And now, "The Absence of Mr. Glass", by G.K. Chesterton
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| 0:00.0 | Can Dr. Orion Hood help the ingenuous Father Brown solve a problem with one of his parishioners? |
| 0:08.0 | G.K. Chesterton, today on the Classic Tales podcast. |
| 0:29.8 | Welcome to the Classic Tales Podcast. Welcome to the Classic Tales podcast, where an audiobook approach delivers an immersive experience in classic literature. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm your host, B.J. Harrison. I'm glad you could join us. With the audiobook library card, |
| 0:39.4 | you gain access to the entire Classic Tales Library that I've been working on for 19 years, hundreds of titles, and thousands of hours |
| 0:46.1 | of classic audiobooks in tons of genres. These are the same titles found on Audible, |
| 0:52.6 | Spotify, Barnes & Noble, etc. |
| 0:55.7 | They already have thousands of five-star ratings, many have won awards, |
| 1:00.2 | and you can download all you want, no limits. |
| 1:04.3 | Stop counting credits or waiting for Libby, |
| 1:06.6 | and get your audiobook library card for only $9.99 a month. |
| 1:11.0 | It's the best deal on the Internet. You're going to love it. |
| 1:15.2 | Go to audiobook library card.com and choose the plan that's right for you. |
| 1:21.2 | Father Brown is often considered a sleuth on a par with Sherlock Holmes. |
| 1:26.4 | In dipping into his wealth of knowledge garnered from |
| 1:28.8 | countless confessions from thieves and other criminals, Father Brown has heard at all, and has a keen |
| 1:35.1 | intellect and a sharp eye, despite his simple appearance. And now, the absence of Mr. Glass |
| 1:43.6 | by G.K. Chesterton. |
| 1:50.0 | The consulting rooms of Dr. Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the |
| 2:02.8 | sea front at Scarborough, in a series of very large and well-lighted French windows, which |
| 2:08.3 | showed the North Sea like one endless outer wall of blue-green marble. In such a place the sea had |
| 2:14.9 | something of the monotony of a blue-green dado. |
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