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1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

THE MAN IN THE PASSAGE A FATHER BROWN MYSTERY

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Arts, Fiction

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Father Brown arrives at a theater at the request of an old friend who ends up being murdered shortly after he arrives.

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0:00.0

And the Yeah, Oh, yeah.

0:23.0

Yeah. Yeah. Hi everyone. This is your host and storyteller John Haggadorn. This is

0:47.4

one thousand one classic short stories and tales. Happy New Year and I wanted to let

0:52.3

you know about a new addition to our lineup.

0:55.2

As you already know, we bring mostly new episodes every Wednesday at 5 p.m. Eastern time and

1:00.7

Sunday at noon Eastern Time.

1:03.4

I now have access to listener numbers for each episode going back to our first episode,

1:08.9

which was A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury on April 15th, 2016. That episode remains very popular to this day.

1:18.0

The news is that I'm adding a Friday Best Of to our weekly lineup here at 1001 Classic Short Stories, as well as some of

1:25.3

our other 1001 shows in the coming weeks. The Friday Best of 1001s will arrive

1:31.3

right around 1 a.m. every Friday morning.

1:35.0

Most will be listener favorites.

1:36.8

Some will be my favorites.

1:38.5

And I'll add some reminiscences as we go.

1:41.2

So be on the listen for Friday Best of 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales to take you through

1:47.0

Friday and into the weekend. Thanks for being with us. I think the best way to start the year would be with a Father Brown story.

1:55.8

This one is called The Man in the Passage, and it's from the book The Wisdom of Father Brown.

2:03.0

And now our story.

2:06.0

Two men appeared simultaneously at the two ends of a sort of passage running along the side of

2:10.9

the Apollo Theater in the Adelphi.

2:13.9

The evening daylight in the streets was large and luminous, opalescent and empty.

2:19.6

The passage was comparatively long and dark, so each man could see the other as a mere black

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