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The Mistake of the Machine

A suspect is locked away, but has the prison governor got the right man? Andrew Sachs stars as GK Chesterton's clerical sleuth.

A suspect is locked away, but has a prison governor got the right man? Can Father Brown discover the answer as he makes his way across America?

Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown.

Series 2 of 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
O'Connor ...... TP McKenna
McGurk ...... Billy Boyle
Usher ...... Don Fellows
Prisoner ...... Brian Haines
Todd ...... Ed Bishop
Butler ...... Manning Wilson
Convict ...... Stuart Organ

Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1986.

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