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Father Brown Series 1 Episode 7: The Sins of Prince Saradine
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Innocence of Father Brown, Book 7
Duration 27m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly 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 'The Sins of Prince Saradine', Father Brown must deal with e...
View BookFather Brown Series 1 Episode 6: The Hammer of God
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Innocence of Father Brown, Book 6
Duration 27m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly 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 'The Hammer of God', Father Brown discovers that retribution...
View BookFather Brown Series 1 Episode 5: The Honour of Israel Gow
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Innocence of Father Brown, Book 5
Duration 27m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly 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 'The Honour of Israel Gow', Father Brown and Flambeau invest...
View BookAuthor: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 44m
A full-cast dramatisation starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon The world's best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about one of his most intriguing cases in this full-cast dramatisation that has been specially adapted for radio from the original novel....
View BookFather Brown Series 1 Episode 4: The Invisible Man
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Innocence of Father Brown, Book 4
Duration 3h 46m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly 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 'The Invisible Man', an inventor is found dead in Camden, mu...
View BookFather Brown Series 1 Episode 3: The Eye of Apollo
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Innocence of Father Brown, Book 3
Duration 26m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly 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 'The Eye of Apollo', a villain turns detective, a new religi...
View BookAuthor: Dick Francis
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Author Dick Francis
Narrator Tony Britton
Duration 10h 4m
'Sadly, death at the races is not uncommon. However, three in a single afternoon was sufficiently unusual to raise more than an eyebrow.' It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion jockey Halley knows the perils of racing all too well - but in his day, jockeys didn't usually reach t...
View BookFather Brown Series 1 Episode 2: The Queer Feet
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Innocence of Father Brown, Book 2
Duration 26m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly 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. 'The Queer Feet' finds Father Brown investigating a death in a...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Simon Brett
Duration 7h
When Jude agrees to lend her vintage chaise longue for the local Amateur Dramatic Society's production of George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, little does she realise she'll end up in a starring role. It's an ambitious play, culminating in a dramatic execution scene: a scene that's played for real when one of the leading actors is found hang...
View BookFather Brown Series 1 Episode 1: The Blue Cross
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Innocence of Father Brown, Book 1
Duration 26m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly 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 'The Blue Cross', the cream of London's police force and Fra...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 37
Duration 1h 27m
Following an otherwise-enjoyable literary luncheon, the celebrated crime novelist Ariadne Oliver is accosted by a particularly formidable woman who engages her in conversation about one of her many god-daughters, whom Ariadne hasn't seen since she was a child. She lands a bombshell with the question "What I want to know is this: did her mother kill...
View BookA Charles Paris Mystery Book 6: The Dead Side of the Mic
Author: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 6
Duration 1h 52m
Actor and reluctant sleuth Charles Paris is facing chaos on the domestic front. He's lodging with his ex-wife Frances, and now their pregnant daughter has moved in as well. It's all a bit much... So he is over the moon when he lands a job on the BBC Radio Rep - but the ink is barely dry on his contract when a murder takes place in Broadcasting Hous...
View BookRumpole: The Penge Bungalow Murders & Other Stories
Author: John Mortimer
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Author John Mortimer
Narrator Benedict Cumberbatch
Duration 2h 55m
Benedict Cumberbatch plays the young, feisty, devastatingly acute Horace Rumpole in this collection of cracking cases, also starring Timothy West as the older Rumpole. Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders: It is the fifties, and two war heroes have been shot dead. Defending the suspect is deemed hopeless, so the case is handed to a novice. But th...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Simon Brett
Duration 9h
Fethering residents, Jude and Carole, get more than they bargained for when a meal in their local pub leaves everyone with food poisoning. The landlord is horrified and when a series of disasters start to befall his business it looks like it could be the end of the road for the Crown and Anchor. The two amateur detectives wonder if it might just be...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 28m
Wealthy businessman Rex Fortescue is found dead with rye grain in his pocket. His death is followed in quick succession by a woman dying while eating bread and honey, and a maid in her garden. Inspector Neele, in charge of investigating the spate of murders, consults with Miss Marple, who has an interesting and surprising theory to offer. She sense...
View BookFather Brown, Series 1: The Complete Series
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 3h 8m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly 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 Series 1, the High Priest of detection becomes involved in s...
View BookAuthor: Ngaio Marsh
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Author Ngaio Marsh
Narrator Ric Jerrom
Duration 9h 5m
When the pesky Anna Bunz arrives at the village of Mardian to investigate the rare survival of folk-dancing there, she quickly antagonises the villagers. But she is not the only source of friction - when the sword dancer's traditional mock beheading becomes horribly real, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn finds himself faced with a case of great compl...
View BookAuthor: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 42m
The 'little cleric from Essex' Father Brown features in this intriguing detective story from master of twists and turns G. K. Chesterton. A man's body is found in a passage, and the suspect must be found. But what motive could have possessed someone to kill in such cold blood? A listener will find out...with a few unexpected surprises along the way...
View BookAuthor: Dick Francis
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Author Dick Francis
Narrator Tony Britton
Duration 9h 10m
Computer whizzkid Peter Keithley, asked to transfer a betting system onto computer tape, dies shortly afterwards. An old friend of his, Jonathan Derry, finds himself in possession of the tapes and discovers that there are greedy, desperate men who will do anything to get their hands on the lucrative software. The evil, bull-faced Angelo goes too fa...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 12m
Poirot has always hated visiting the dentist, but this time his check-up is painless and soon over. As he leaves Mr. Morley's surgery, he observes a woman wearing patent leather shoes with large buckles. She catches one of the buckles on the taxi door and wrenches it off, and as Poirot hands it back, he is reminded of the children's rhyme "One, two...
View BookFather Brown: The Blue Cross and Other Stories
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 1h 49m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly 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. Here, the High Priest of detection becomes involved in four int...
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