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

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Whodunnits: Father Brown Stories: Actor and Alibi

Actor and Alibi

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The clerical sleuth hopes that the farce is with him in solving a theatre-land mystery.

GK Chesterton's clerical sleuth hopes that the farce is with him in solving a theatre-land mystery. Stars Andrew Sachs.

A theatrical murder amid much back-stabbing is announced in the Chop-House. Father Brown finds himself in the midst of a School for Scandal.

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
Mundon Mandeville ...... Peter Jeffrey 
Mrs Mandeville ...... Sheila Grant 
Inspector Bagshaw ...... Bill Wallis
Ashton Jarvis ...... David Brierly 
Norman Knight ...... Charles Baillie  
Lady Miriam Talbot ...... Fleur Chandler 
Miss Maroni ...... Karen Ascoe
Mrs Sans ...... Pauline Letts 
House Manager ...... Jonathan Scott

Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid. 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1986.

Whodunnits: Father Brown Stories

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