Ep.424 Father Brown: The Queer Feet

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 29 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 nostalgic mystery radio. I'm your host Stevie K.
0:23.0	And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear. For today's episode, I bring you
0:28.1	Father Brown, episode titled The Queer Feet, where Father Brown is called to the exclusive Vernon
0:35.2	Hotel to administer the last rights to a dying member of the staff.
0:40.4	He manages to detect a crime in progress and save a soul all by listening for a few strange
0:47.3	footsteps in a corridor. So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy the nostalgic mystery radio.
0:56.0	Thank you. We present the queer feet, adapted by John Scottney, with Andrew Sacks as Father Brown.
1:44.1	Hey, Chiipzig, what are you doing that?
1:46.1	How you mean, young Hector?
1:48.0	Well, you know what they say about the waiters here?
1:50.7	Si, is much easier to become a member of parliament
1:54.9	Than a waiter at the Hotel Vernon.
1:58.0	Right, and yet here you are.
1:59.9	A waiter, demeaning yourself by talking to a mere dishwasher.
2:03.3	Ah, not just talking, but actually doing some washing up.
2:07.7	What?
2:08.3	Mr. Lever, Mr. Lever, he say, you, Giovanni, you clean the special silver.
2:14.6	The young Hector, I cannot trust him with it.
2:19.2	He only been here a fortnight anyway. He's American. He's probably bandit. Oh, get away. Hey, these are amazing, but amazing.
2:27.9	They're not pretty, but they are amazing. What in tarnation are they? They are a fish service.
2:33.3	You see, each knife and fork is shaped like a fish.
2:37.4	Oh, yes.
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