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Radio 4 Extra,19 Oct 1986,30 mins

SeriesFather Brown Stories

The Mistake of the Machine

Whodunnits

Available for 40 days

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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