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The Mystery of Father Brown: Ann Widdecombe Investigates
4 Extra Debut. Ann Widdecombe goes on the trail of GK Chesterton's crime-solving priest. With AN Wilson and Simon Brett. From May 2011.
2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Innocence of Father Brown. Ann Widdecombe goes on the trail of G.K.Chesterton's crime solving priest whose unlikely methods make him one of the great heroes of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. She talks to fans A.N.Wilson and Simon Brett, and traces the creation of Father Brown to the friendship between Chesterton and Mgr John O'Connor, an Irish Priest who later converted Chesterton to Catholicism.
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