Hello and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio. I'm your host Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.

For this episode, I bring you Father Brown, episode titled The Mirror of the Magistrate,

where a conservative judge is found shot to death in his garden,

and Father Brown sets out to prove that the outspoken socialist arrested for his murder is innocent.

So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

Thank you for listening.

The mirror of the Magistrate.

It would not be fair to record the adventures of Father Brown without some mention of the curious experience

which he always referred to as the mirror of the magistrate. The case might equally well and indeed

more properly have been called the looking glass of the judge, but The case might equally well, and indeed more properly, have been called

the looking-glass of the judge, but no doubt the alliteration of those capital M's appeal to

my friends liking for euphony, and so in deference to him, I shall adhere to the title which he

himself chose to bestone it. As you shall hear, it was only by the merest chance that our little

priest came to be involved

in the strange circumstances at all.

But the tale really begins when two old cronies, James Bagshaw and Wilfred Underhill,

were taking their customary evening stroll through the leafy labyrinths of the large suburb in

which they lived.

Bagshaw was, by profession, a police detective. While his friend

could best be described as an amateur interested in detection, they talked interminably as they

walked. But contrary to general belief, it was, on the whole, the detective who did the talking,

and the amateur who listened. Yes, this is the only trade

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