{"id":294,"date":"2022-01-23T22:33:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T06:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:07:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:07:47","slug":"listen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen: The Man Who Was Thursday Radio Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The classic detective novel penned by G.K. Chesterton comes alive in a full cast audio presentation, adapted and directed by Andrew Wahlquist.  The cast includes Jacob Sidney, Peter Macon, William Dennis Hunt, Stephen Alan Carver, Mark Bramhall, Lisa Wolpe, Gregory Gifford Giles, Lana Joy, Jason Lewis and Eric Curtis Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">The Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Gabriel Syme, a poet, challenges an anarchist who preaches in the public square, then finds himself as a special guest to an underground meeting of the anarchist movement.&nbsp; Their task that night, to elect a new &#8220;Thursday&#8221; to the dreadful Council of Days, the high council of anarchy, led by the notorious President Sunday.&nbsp; These are seven of the worst men in the world, each named for a day of the week.&nbsp; Gabriel, secretly an undercover detective for Scotland Yard, manages to get himself elected to the post of Thursday, and soon finds himself on a ship down the river Thames, bound for his first meeting of the Council of Days.&nbsp; He has no idea how the adventures that follow will affect him, each turn more bizarre than the one before, each twisting his understanding of the universe from upside down to right-side up again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0k9yXHMvHHRIq26yt5fw0v\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/listen-on-spotify-300x113.png\" alt=\"Listen on Spotify\" class=\"wp-image-284\" style=\"width:231px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/listen-on-spotify-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/listen-on-spotify.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-man-who-was-thursday-radio-play\/id1597696922?itsct=podcast_box_badge&amp;itscg=30200&amp;ls=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tools.applemediaservices.com\/api\/badges\/listen-on-apple-podcasts\/badge\/en-us?size=250x83&amp;releaseDate=1626067500&amp;h=bbd600d4ee8e3806dbad5ab2a2061fae\" alt=\"Listen on Apple Podcasts\" style=\"width:274px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL39u0spZeKI_xFZR3ss7W9p2-ARFDyHgy&amp;si=0PlbGPY87rLoRTpv\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"279\" height=\"91\" src=\"https:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AvailableonYouTube-black-2xpng.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-359\" style=\"width:251px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<strong>CAST<\/strong> (<a href=\"..\/?page_id=14\">BIOS<\/a>)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Gabriel Syme (Thursday).......Jacob Sidney<br>Lucien Gregory................Eric Curtis Johnson<br>President Sunday..............Peter Macon<br>The Secretary (Monday)........Mark Bramhall<br>Gogol (Tuesday)...............Gregory Gifford Giles<br>The Marquis (Wednesday).......Lisa Wolpe<br>The Professor (Friday)........William Dennis Hunt<br>Dr. Bull (Saturday)...........Stephen Alan Carver<br>Colonel Ducroix...............Gregory Gifford Giles<br>Rosamond Gregory..............Lana Joy<br>Detective.....................Jason Lewis<br>Additional Voices.............Rob Fox<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>CREW<\/strong> (<a href=\"..\/?page_id=48\">BIOS)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewjwahlquist.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Andrew J. Wahlquist<\/a> ..........writer, director, editor<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidthomasstanton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Stanton<\/a> ................composer, co-producer<br>Benjamin Stanton .............audio engineer<br>Ananda Dillon ................associate producer<br>Lana Wahlquist ...............casting director<br>Special thanks: Jeremy Burgan, Geoff Gross, Kyle Kubler<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The classic detective novel penned by G.K. Chesterton comes alive in a full cast audio presentation, adapted and directed by Andrew Wahlquist. The cast includes Jacob Sidney, Peter Macon, William Dennis Hunt, Stephen Alan Carver, Mark Bramhall, Lisa Wolpe, Gregory Gifford Giles, Lana Joy, Jason Lewis and Eric Curtis Johnson. 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