Ep.403 Father Brown: The Hammer Of God

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Rough and tough Hard-boiled detectives grab a lot of attention, but who would have a better insight on the nature of human evil than “a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins”? Where could you find a more “soft-boiled” character than the parish priest. Mutual brought The Adventures of Father Brown to the air in 1945. Father Brown was the antithesis of the more celebrated soft-boiled detective, Sherlock Holmes. Where Holmes was a master of deduction, Father Brown relied on intui...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Nostologic Mystery Radio.
0:22.1	I'm your host, Stevie K.
0:24.2	And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.
0:28.0	Today, I bring you another favorite of mine, Father Brown.
0:32.3	Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and an amateur detective
0:37.5	based on Father Brown
0:39.3	short stories by G.K. Chesterton.
0:42.3	The Father Brown
0:43.2	radio show is not what I perceive
0:45.2	as nostalgic radio,
0:47.2	but it is set in the 1950s.
0:49.9	And the short stories were written by
0:51.4	Chesterton between 1910 and
0:53.3	1930s.
0:55.0	Also, I enjoy the television show, so I think I'll bring it to the podcast.
1:00.9	This Father Brown mystery is entitled, Hammer of God, originally aired January 14th, 2013,
1:09.2	where an ungodly man is murdered, and Father Brown must find the killer before an innocent
1:15.3	woman is sent to the gallows. So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic
1:23.3	mystery radio. Thank you for listening.
1:36.3	The Father Brown stories by G.K. Chesterton.
1:50.6	We present The Hammer of God, adapted by John Scottney, with Andrew Sacks as Father Brown.
2:00.9	The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost for this all evermore.
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