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Father Brown: The Complete Series 1 and 2
Father Brown: The Complete Series 1 and 2
Nov 11, 2025 6:54 PM

Author:G.K. Chesterton,Andrew Sachs,Full Cast

Father Brown: The Complete Series 1 and 2

Andrew Sachs stars as G.K. Chesterton's crime-solving cleric, whose unlikely methods make him one of the great heroes of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

With his black hat, huge umbrella, unworldly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, he has entertained generations.

In this collection of 13 full-cast dramatisations, the High Priest of detection becomes involved in seven intriguing cases that will tax even his mental powers to the limit. The episodes are:

The Blue Cross

The Queer Feet

The Eye of Apollo

The Invisible Man

The Honour of Israel Gow

The Hammer of God

The Sins of Prince Saradine

The Perishing of the Pendragons

The Arrow of Heaven

The Mistake of the Machine

The Curse of the Golden Cross

Actor and Alibi

The Absence of Mr Glass

Also included in this collection is a bonus documentary programme, The Mystery of Father Brown, in which Ann Widdecombe explores the enduring impact of the shambolic priest, and looks into the life of his creator G.K. Chesterton.

Dramatised by John Scotney and produced by Alec Reid.

Reviews

Praise for Clive Cussler

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The Adventure King

—— Sunday Express

Cussler is hard to beat

—— Daily Mail

Nobody does it better . . . nobody!

—— Stephen Coonts

Just about the best storyteller in the business

—— New York Post

Delivers what it promises

—— Financial Times

The IPCRESS File has lost none of its nerve-tingling fascination ... [and] the pleasure of engaging with a master of his craft.

—— Barry Turner , Daily Mail

A wonderful mixture of the exciting and the amusingly humdrum ... James Bond may be thinner, but so is his dialogue.

—— Jake Kerridge , Daily Telegraph

Deighton is a fearless observer of the deceptive human world.

—— John Gray , New Statesman

A dazzling performance. The verve and energy, the rattle of wit in the dialogue, the side-of-the-mouth comments, the evident pleasure taken in cocking a snook at the British spy story's upper-middle-class tradition - all these made it clear that a writer of remarkable talent in this field had appeared.

—— Julian Symons , New York Times Book Review

Jørn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today

—— Sunday Times

Horst, a former Norwegian police detective, is often compared to Sweden's Henning Mankell for his moody, sweeping crime dramas

—— New York Times

Jørn Lier Horst raises the suspense level to horror proportions

—— Lotta Olsson , Dagens Nyheter, 'Best Crime Novels of 2020'

Expect dark themes and plot twists a plenty

—— Red

Dramatic, mysterious and compelling

—— Vogue

Kept me guessing to the end

—— Sun

With secrets and intrigue, this is a compulsive read

—— Sun on Sunday

Moriarty rocks the drama genre

—— Courier-Mail

Nicola Moriarty belongs to a family tree laded with writers. She more than holds her own

—— The Australian

Nicola's got great pace and snappy dialogue, and I especially like her male characters

—— Liane Moriarty , Sydney Morning Herald

Brilliant! Could not put it down. It's utterly gripping and beautifully written.

—— KATIE FFORDE

Smart and compassionate, full of poetry and rage and shy hopes and shredded dreams and missing girls and family secrets.

—— TAMMY COHEN, author of Stop At Nothing

This is a striking first novel, a chilling insight into an oppressive world, where bad thoughts and bad deeds ripple just below the surface, out of sight.

—— Alison Flood, OBSERVER

Chilling and compulsive... a dazzling debut.

—— KATE HAMER, author of The Girl in the Red Coat

Simmering resentments and long-held prejudices boil over in this beautifully realised evocation of small-town America. I I loved it.

—— Kate Riordan, author of The Heatwave

An elegant, mesmerizing debut-Anna Bailey explores festering secrets with a with a sharp, yet tender gaze. This book reads like a whisper in the dark.

—— DANYA KUKAFKA, author of Girl in Snow

Cleverly written , Anna Bailey's debut shines a light on the darker and more oppressive side of small-town society.

—— Independent
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