Father Brown Stories

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Murder mysteries from the world's greatest crime fiction writers. Only on BBC Sounds.

A collection of murder mysteries from some of the world's greatest writers of crime fiction. Only on BBC Sounds.

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Whodunnits: Father Brown Stories: The Curse of the Golden Cross

The Curse of the Golden Cross

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Whodunnits, Father Brown Stories, The Curse of the Golden Cross

The past and present collide to provide another mystery to solve for the clerical sleuth.

The past and present collide to provide another mystery to solve for GK Chesterton's clerical sleuth. Stars Andrew Sachs.

What do an itinerant gambler, an English lady, a steward, a vicar and a professor have in common? And who has the right to it? Father Brown finds the answer.

Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown.

GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work.

Dramatised by John Scotney.   

Father Brown ...... Andrew Sachs
Professor Smail    ......    Tim Reynolds
Mr Tarrant    ......    Peter Marinker 
Lady Diana    ......    Natasha Pyne 
Leonard Smythe    ......    Peter Wickham 
Steward    ......    Terry O'Brien
Driver    ......        Jonathan Tafler 
Doctor    ......    Eric Stovell

Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid. 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1986.

Whodunnits: Father Brown Stories

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Mysteries featuring GK Chesterton's famous clerical sleuth.

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