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GK Chesterton - The Club of Queer Trades: Episode 5: The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd

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Episode 5: The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd

The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd

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What is happening to Professor Chadd? Stars Martin Freeman, David Warner, Chris Douglas and Amelia Bullmore. From May 2005.

The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd is apparent to everyone who calls at the home of the noted ethnologist. 

However, his three sisters become alarmed when he suddenly refuses to speak. The sisters waste no time in summoning the Professor's equally eccentric acquaintance, Basil Grant. 

Can Basil save the highly respected Professor from his madness and the wrath of his employers at the British Museum? And just why does Professor Chadd insist on shaking his leg in the manner of a bee? 

Stars David Warner as Basil Grant, Martin Freeman as Rupert Grant, Geoffrey McGivern as Charlie Swinburne, Amelia Bullmore as Christina, Chris Douglas as Bingham, Martin Hyder as Dr Colman, Felicity Montagu as Adeleide and John Nettleton as Professor Chadd.  

GK Chesterton stories dramatised by Simon Littlefield 

Producer: Simon Nicholls

First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2005.

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