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search UWE Bristol today. Please listen to this recording in a place where if you were to fall asleep, it would be safe to do so. Hello and welcome. I'm Christopher Fitton, and I'll be reading the Father Brown story of the Flying Stars.

It involves a master thief, Flombo, and three diamonds, and I really think you'll enjoy this mystery story tonight.

And let's begin the Flying Stars, a Father Brown story by Kay Chesterton,

read by Christopher Fitton, the most beautiful crime I ever committed. Flombo, would say in his highly moral old age,

was also by a singular coincidence, my last. It was committed at Christmas.

As an artist, I had always attempted to provide crimes suitable to the special season,

all landscapes in which I found myself, choosing this on that terraced or garden for a catastrophe,

as if for a statutory group. The squires should be swindled in long rooms, handled with oak.

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