🎭 Crack-Up | A Saturday Night Theatre Psychological Thriller

🎭 Crack-Up
A Saturday Night Theatre Psychological Thriller

📖 Synopsis
Crack-Up is a taut psychological thriller that explores the terrifying moment when a man begins to doubt his own sanity. Subtle disturbances, unexplained incidents, and creeping paranoia blur the boundary between imagination and reality. As the tension tightens, the listener is drawn into an intimate, unsettling drama where truth itself becomes unstable — and the greatest danger may lie within the mind.

A classic example of BBC Saturday Night Theatre’s mastery of suspense, Crack-Up relies not on spectacle, but on atmosphere, voice, and the slow, inexorable pressure of doubt.

🖋️ A Chestertonian Introduction
There is a peculiar modern superstition that madness announces itself with noise and fireworks. In truth, it often enters quietly — with a hesitation, a doubt, a second glance at the familiar. Crack-Up is not the story of a man who loses his mind in a blaze of drama, but of one who mislays it inch by inch, like a set of keys placed down and never found again.

And that, of course, is far more frightening.

📜 A G. K. Chesterton Quote
“The madman is not the man who has lost his reason.
The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.”— G. K. Chesterton

🎙️ About the Production
Series: Saturday Night Theatre
Network: BBC
Year: 1964
Genre: Psychological thriller · Suspense · Noir drama
Style: Minimalist, tense, interior drama relying on voice and silence

🌙 Why This Belongs on Chesterton Radio
A pure Theatre-of-the-Mind experience
Perfect for late-night listening and noir programming
A rare, unsettling psychological study rather than a conventional mystery
Ideal companion to Inner Sanctum, Appointment with Fear, and BBC suspense plays

📡 Broadcast Note
This presentation is part of Chesterton Radio’s ongoing preservation and celebration of classic radio drama, restoring forgotten masterpieces where imagination does the heavy lifting — and silence speaks as loudly as words.

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