- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Jane Rackham
Mark Williams (who also pops up this week in literary mode on Sunday in PG Wodehouse’s Blandings) does a smashing job as GK Chesterton’s mystery-solving pastor, a role previously played by Kenneth More and Alec Guinness. Father Brown is a mild-mannered, outwardly bumbling chap who’s rarely seen without an umbrella and a bemused expression on his face but who often finds himself caught up in murder. His sleuthing tends to be intuitive rather than deductive. A bit like Midsomer Murders, the stories have a gloriously bucolic setting, although purists will notice that the period has been moved to the 1950s.
In this first story the vulgar and caddish brother of the local vicar is murdered while the villagers are celebrating a new church clock. The local blacksmith’s wife confesses to the crime but Father Brown knows she’s innocent. He just can’t work out yet who’s guilty.
About this programme
1/10. New series. Crime drama, starring Mark Williams as a Roman Catholic priest who attempts to solve various misdemeanours. In the first episode, Father Brown investigates when a man is murdered at the unveiling of a new church clock. He must act quickly before an innocent woman is sent to the gallows.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Elizabeth Barnes
- Bryony Afferson
- Norman Bohun
- Sam Hoare
- Fr Brown
- Mark Williams
- Simeon Barnes
- Barry Sloane
- Mrs McCarthy
- Sorcha Cusack
- Rev Wilfred Bohun
- Adam Astill
- Susie Jasinski
- Kasia Koleczek
- Philip Walker
- Oliver Ryan
- Insp Valentine
- Hugo Speer
Crew
- Director
- Ian Barber
- Executive Producer
- Will Trotter
- Executive Producer
- John Yorke
- Producer
- Ceri Meyrick
- Series Producer
- Sam Hill
- Writer
- Tahsin Guner
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