Ep. 1004, The Queer Feet, by G.K. Chesterton VINTAGE

The Classic Tales Podcast

B.J. Harrison

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Can Father Brown discover the thief in an exclusive club merely by their footsteps? G.K. Chesterton today on The Classic Tales Podcast. Welcome to this Vintage Episode of The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening. If you’d like to ensure the future of The Classic Tales, please visit the website, classictalesaudiobooks.com, and either make a donation, buy an audiobook, or pick up one of our many support options. And if you can’t support us monetarily, leave us a review or share an episode with a friend. It all helps. G.K. Chesterton’s seminal creation of Father Brown is second only to Sherlock Holmes when it comes to British sleuths. His station gets him into all sorts of places closed to others, and makes him privy to many unusual conversations. I hope you like today’s story from the collection: The Innocence of Father Brown. And now, “The Queer Feet”, by G.K. Chesterton Follow this link to become a monthly supporter: Follow this link to subscribe to our YouTube Channel: Follow this link to subscribe to the Arsène Lupin Podcast: Follow this link to follow us on Instagram: Follow this link to follow us on Facebook:

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0:00.0	Can Father Brown discover the thief in an exclusive club merely by their footsteps?
0:06.9	G.K. Chesterton, today on the Classic Tales podcast.
0:20.6	Welcome to this vintage episode of the Classic Tales podcast. Welcome to this vintage episode of the Classic Tales podcast. Thank you for listening.
0:26.3	If you'd like to ensure the future of the classic tales, please visit our website,
0:31.2	Classic Talesaudiobooks.com, and either make a donation, buy an audiobook, or pick up one of our many support options.
0:39.6	Thank you so much.
0:41.1	And if you can't support us monetarily, leave us a review or share an episode with a friend.
0:46.5	It all helps.
0:48.6	G.K. Chesterton's seminal creation of Father Brown is second only to Sherlock Holmes when it comes to our favorite British
0:56.0	sleuths. His station
0:58.2	gets him into all sorts of places
1:00.0	closed to others and makes him
1:02.1	privy to many unusual conversations.
1:05.5	I hope you like today's story from the collection
1:07.4	The Innocence of Father Brown.
1:10.7	And now, The Queer Feetet by G.K. Chesterton.
1:14.6	If you meet a member of that select club, the 12 true fisherman,
1:24.6	entering the Vernon Hotel for the annual club dinner, you will observe, as
1:29.4	he takes off his overcoat that his evening coat is green and not black. If, supposing that
1:36.6	you have the star-defying audacity to address such a being, you ask him why, he will
1:42.5	probably answer that he does it to avoid being mistaken for a waiter.
1:47.3	You will then retire, crushed, but you will leave behind you a mystery, as yet unsolved, and a tale worth telling.
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