document_title: Father Brown (2013 TV series)

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text: Father Brown (2013 TV series)

text: Plot[edit]

text: The series is set during the early 1950s, in the fictional Cotswold village of Kembleford, where Father Brown, priest at St Mary's Catholic Church, solves murder cases. A bumbling police inspector, who often arrests the wrong suspect, gets annoyed by Father Brown's success.

text: Father Brown uses the distinctive skills of his close friends as well as his own wits to solve cases, occasionally to the neglect of his more mundane parish duties. His vocation as a priest often gives him an insight to the truth, so that justice (but occasionally, not the letter of the law) may be served. His commitment to obeying the Seal of the Confessional often presents unique circumstances. The time period is when Britain was still struggling with deprivation and shortages in the aftermath of the hardships of the Second World War. The country still applies the death penalty as a sentence for capital crimes such as murder. Father Brown opposes capital punishment.

text: Characters[edit]

text:
Father Brown – Mark Williams (2013–present): a slightly crumpled, shambolic and mild-mannered Roman Catholic priest who, by appearance, is easily forgotten. His apparent innocence belies a playful wit and a razor-sharp intellect. His greatest strength, both as a priest and as a detective of crime, is his love and understanding of other people. He’s not there to judge, but to save souls.
Mrs Bridgette McCarthy née Maguire – Sorcha Cusack (2013–present): the Irish parish secretary at St Mary’s. She checks the facts for Father Brown, acts as his confidante on official Church business and everything else, defends him from the ire of the congregation, and makes sure he eats. She has a tendency to brag about her award-winning strawberry scones. Mrs McCarthy is a frequent gossip – though claims she is not – and often at odds with Lady Felicia, although she and Lady Felicia eventually admit to being close friends. She is married, but leaves her husband after he returns from having lived with another woman following the war.
Lady Felicia Montague née Windermere – Nancy Carroll (2013–2018): a bored socialite and Countess, apparently from an old recusant family, with a roving eye when her husband, Monty, is away. She is a staunch supporter of Father Brown and frequent nemesis of Mrs McCarthy, despite a grudging respect between the women. She left at the start of Series 5 when her husband is appointed Governor of Northern Rhodesia, but made a guest appearance in Series 6, "The Face of the Enemy".
Sidney "Sid" Carter – Alex Price (2013–2018): An artful dodger, Sid, is an occasional black marketeer, part-time crook and informant who becomes Lady Felicia's chauffeur, and whom Father Brown makes the church's handyman while trying to keep on the straight and narrow. However, his skills, and links to the criminal underworld of Kembleford, are often needed to solve a case. He made a guest appearance in Series 6 in the episode "The Face of the Enemy".
Zuzanna "Susie" Jasinski – Kasia Koleczek (2013): Father Brown's part-time housekeeper, who lives in a nearby post-war Polish resettlement camp. Her true first name was revealed in the episode "The Eye of Apollo."
Lady Penelope "Bunty" Windermere – Emer Kenny (2017–present): the wayward niece of Lady Felicia seeking refuge after being photographed leaving a sleazy nightclub with a married man and cited in divorce proceedings.
Inspector Valentine – Hugo Speer (2013–2014): head of the local police force, finds himself constantly torn between secret admiration for Father Brown and deep frustration with him. He would like to collaborate, but has been burnt once too often by Brown’s unorthodox moral code. Nevertheless, he comes to respect his methods and even admits, upon his departure, that he might miss Father Brown.
Inspector Sullivan – Tom Chambers (2014–2015): replaced Inspector Valentine, who was promoted to Detective Chief Inspector and went to London at the start of the second series. A somewhat arrogant man, Sullivan is even more exasperated by Father Brown's meddling and contradicting his findings, but is eventually won over.
Inspector Mallory – Jack Deam (2016–present): the replacement for Inspector Sullivan. Like his predecessors, he is often exasperated by Father Brown, whom he sarcastically refers to as "Padre." However, he is a far more zealous (and occasionally resourceful) detective, and chases after leads with great enthusiasm, even when they lead him to the wrong conclusion.
Sergeant Albright – Keith Osborn (2013–2014): played dogsbody to Inspectors Valentine and Sullivan.
Sergeant Goodfellow – John Burton (2014–present): continued playing the dogsbody for the Inspector with increasing involvement. Credited in the opening beginning in series 5.
M. Hercule Flambeau – John Light (2013–present): nemesis of Father Brown; jewel and art thief with seemingly no conscience. He and Father Brown have encountered each other at least once in every series; in series four he reveals he has a daughter, Marianne Delacroix, whom he had never met.

text: Cast[edit]

text: Main[edit]

text:
Mark Williams as Father Brown
Sorcha Cusack as Mrs Bridgette McCarthy
Hugo Speer as Inspector Valentine (Series 1–Series 2, Episode 1)
Nancy Carroll as Lady Felicia Montague (Series 1–Series 5, Episode 2; Series 6, Episode 1 and 5)
Alex Price as Sid Carter (Series 1–4; Series 5, Episode 11; Series 6, Episode 1 and 5)
Kasia Koleczek as Susie Jasinski (Series 1)
Keith Osborn as Sergeant Albright (Series 1–2)
Tom Chambers as Inspector Sullivan (Series 2–3)
John Burton as Sergeant Goodfellow (Series 2–present)
Jack Deam as Inspector Mallory (Series 4–present)
Emer Kenny as Penelope (Bunty) Windermere (Series 5–present)
John Light as M. Hercule Flambeau (Recurring guest)

text: Guest stars[edit]

text: Various people have guest starred in the show, including Laura Main, Annette Badland, Guy Henry, Penny Downie, Roberta Taylor, James Fleet, Robert Cavanah, Emma Fielding, James Laurenson, Steffan Rhodri, Michael Maloney, Dominic Mafham, Camilla Power, Clare Higgins, Selina Cadell, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Jamie Glover, Holly Earl, Stephen Boxer, Flora Spencer-Longhurst, Gareth Hale, Christopher Villiers, Katie Leung, Marcia Warren, Adrian Scarborough, Frances Barber, Caroline Blakiston, Adrian Rawlins, Ronni Ancona, Georgina Leonidas, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Arthur Bostrom, John Sessions, and Martin Kemp.

text: Production[edit]

text: The series is a BBC Birmingham production and filming for the first series of ten episodes of Father Brown began in the Cotswolds in summer 2012.[1] The BBC renewed Father Brown for a second series of ten episodes in 2013.[2] A third series of 15 episodes was commissioned in 2014.[3] A fourth series of ten episodes was commissioned in 2015.[4]

text: In 2014 Father Brown was shown on various public television stations in the United States and on the satellite "Film&Arts" channel in South America.

text: Conception[edit]

text: BBC Daytime wanted a home-grown detective show for the afternoons on BBC1. Initially, original ideas from writers were pitched, but the BBC wanted something that was less of a risk and was already well known. Father Brown had not been filmed since the 1970s with Kenneth More. Executive Producer John Yorke came up with the idea after hearing a radio documentary about G. K. Chesterton presented by Ann Widdecombe.

text: Writers were given the choice of adapting an existing story or to come up with an original idea. Half of the first ten episodes made were loosely based on Chesterton stories. The Chesterton stories were set all over the world and at different times, but a decision was made to anchor the stories in a fixed place and time.

text: The Cotswolds was chosen as it had few modern buildings and was close to the production base in Birmingham. The 1950s was chosen as the detective could solve the puzzle using his mind and knowledge of human nature instead of relying on modern technology. The lead writers, Rachel Flowerday and Tahsin Guner, created the world and the characters. Other writers contributed stand-alone scripts that were not part of a story arc.[5]

text: Significant changes were made in some of the episodes ostensibly based on the original works, including "The Hammer of God", "The Wrong Shape", and "The Eye of Apollo".

text: Filming[edit]

text: Filming takes place in the Gloucestershire village of Blockley using the church of Saints Peter and Paul[6] (Church of England) as the St Mary Roman Catholic church of the series and the vicarage transformed into presbytery for Father Brown's residence.[7] Other villages used are Winchcombe, Upper Slaughter, Kemerton and Guiting Power. Filming also took place at Winchcombe railway station on the heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. Sudeley Castle was the main location for "The Eye of Apollo".[8] Princethorpe College, once a Catholic convent, now a secondary school, was used to film "St Agnes Convent" in Series One Episode 6.[9]

text: Filming for the second series included the Warwickshire village of Ilmington. Chastleton House and Berkeley Castle were used to portray Pryde Castle in the episode broadcast on 8 January 2014.[10][11] Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire provided the location for the final resting place of the famed rosary in the episode "Mysteries of the Rosary" airing 10 January 2014.[12] The gardens at Snowshill Manor featured in the same episode. "The Time Machine" episode, in series 3, was based around the Warwickshire estate of Alscot Park.

text: Filming has also taken place at Ashdown WW2 Camp, Evesham, Worcestershire where the TV series the Land Girls was also filmed. Laid out as a WW2 camp, Ashdown Camp is made up of 11 nissen huts, air raid shelters, and outbuildings.[13] Also used were the 1930s portion of Shire Hall, Warwick, headquarters of Warwickshire County Council, Bloxham School in Oxfordshire[14] and Worcester Guildhall.[15]

text: Locations[edit]

text:
Filming in Blockley Churchyard

St Peter & St Paul Church, Blockley and the Riley RMA[16] used for filming Father Brown

Blockley Church with artificial snow (2016 Christmas Special)

Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire

Winchcombe railway station

St Peter's Church in Upper Slaughter doubled as the Anglican church in Kembleford[17]

The old Moreton-in-Marsh police station featured as Kembleford police station[18]

The old Moreton-in-Marsh hospital was the new Kembleford police station[19][20][21]

Kembleford police station in series 5

The Quaker Meeting House in Broad Campden featured as "Kembleford Parish Hall"

Guiting Power doubled as part of Kembleford

High Street, Blockley

Princethorpe College

Spetchley Park was used for "The Curse of Amenhotep" (2015)[22]

Kenilworth Castle

Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire

Chastleton House, Oxfordshire

text: Episodes[edit]

text: Series overview[edit]

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Series
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired

1
10
14 January 2013 (2013-01-14)
25 January 2013 (2013-01-25)

2
10
6 January 2014 (2014-01-06)
17 January 2014 (2014-01-17)

3
15
5 January 2015 (2015-01-05)
23 January 2015 (2015-01-23)

4
10
4 January 2016 (2016-01-04)
15 January 2016 (2016-01-15)

5
15
23 December 2016 (2016-12-23)
19 January 2017 (2017-01-19)

6
10
18 December 2017 (2017-12-18)
12 January 2018 (2018-01-12)

text: Series 1 (2013)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
series
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date

1
1
"The Hammer of God"
Ian Barber
Tahsin Guner
14 January 2013 (2013-01-14)

The brother of an Anglican vicar is killed with a blacksmith's hammer. The blacksmith's wife, who had been blackmailed by the victim, confesses; Father Brown must find a killer who believes it was God's work from the victim's many enemies before an innocent woman is sent to the gallows.

2
2
"The Flying Stars"
Ian Barber
Rachel Flowerday
15 January 2013 (2013-01-15)

The Flying Stars is a valuable necklace belonging to the theatrical Adams family; when the mother drowns in a lake, this initially is thought to be an accident until the tensions within the family are exposed. An Italian coin arouses Father Brown's suspicions, and a pair of shoes that are too large put Lady Felicia's life in danger.

3
3
"The Wrong Shape"
Dominic Keavey
Nicola Wilson
16 January 2013 (2013-01-16)

Ex-doctor Leonard Quinton, living with his estranged wife, a young mistress, and Indian manservant, is foretold of his death by the manservant. Quinton asks Father Brown to look after his wife following his death. Quinton is found dead apparently hanging himself but Brown and Inspector Valentine suspect murder. A poisoned cat and the unmarked headstone of a three-month-old baby buried in the garden and his treatment of his wife for morning sickness with a new German drug provides the tragic answer.

4
4
"The Man in the Tree"
Dominic Keavey
Rebecca Wojciechowski
17 January 2013 (2013-01-17)

A man stripped and pushed from a train on a viaduct is found by Lady Felicia, injured and stuck up a tree. Father Brown meets a visiting German priest, arousing hostility amongst the villagers with recent war memories. Father Brown sees to it that justice is done, though not in a strictly legal fashion.

5
5
"The Eye of Apollo"
Matt Carter
Tahsin Guner
18 January 2013 (2013-01-18)

The Church of Apollo comes to Kembleford, and Susie falls under the spell of their charismatic leader, Kalon (Michael Maloney). Jealousy among the followers leads to murder, in a locked room, of Kalon's wife. Father Brown must solve the murder and break Kalon's spell over Susie before she leaves with him following baptism into his church.

6
6
"The Bride of Christ"
Ian Barber
Jude Tindall
21 January 2013 (2013-01-21)

Two nuns die of cyanide poisoning, the first in front of Father Brown and the second while Inspector Valentine is investigating the first death. Ill-feeling among the nuns and the bottles of cyanide held at the convent lead to many a suspect. Sister Boniface (Lorna Watson), a fan of Agatha Christie, lends a helping hand to Father Brown.

7
7
"The Devil's Dust"
Dominic Keavey
Dan Muirden
22 January 2013 (2013-01-22)

14-year-old Ruth Bennett (Holly Earl) goes missing. She had been ostracised by the village because of a skin complaint the villagers believe was caused by radiation at her father's place of work. When her blood-stained pyjamas are found, suspects include Ruth's family doctor on whom she had a crush, her mother who had hit her, and a plumber with a similar skin complaint who is dying of cancer.

8
8
"The Face of Death"
Matt Carter
Lol Fletcher
23 January 2013 (2013-01-23)

Lady Margaret (Stella Gonet) runs a man down and his son Daniel blames her for deliberately doing it. At a masked charity garden party a guest is murdered in an identical mask to one worn by Lady Margaret's husband (Stephen Boxer). When Lady Margaret is later murdered, Daniel is suspected but cannot be found.

9
9
"The Mayor and the Magician"
Dominic Keavey
Nicola Wilson
24 January 2013 (2013-01-24)

At the annual village fête, the obnoxious mayor William Knight (Sam Crane) is electrocuted at the microphone. He is a man with many enemies, including his wife (Louise Brealey), who is arrested. Father Brown is shocked by what is heard in the confessional, but it provides a clue about the killer. Mrs McCarthy's 'long dead' husband, Frank (Frank Grimes), turns up dressed as a magician.

10
10
"The Blue Cross"
Ian Barber
Paul Matthew Thompson
25 January 2013 (2013-01-25)

International thief Flambeau (John Light) forewarns Father Brown of his intention to steal the priceless relic, The Blue Cross, from St Mary's. To pre-empt the theft, Brown takes the cross in what becomes a battle of wits between the two men. The climax reveals a connection between the two men when Brown fought as a 17-year-old soldier in Flanders during the Great War before taking Holy orders.
First appearance of John Light as Hercule Flambeau. Final appearance of Kasia Koleczek as Susie Jasinski.

text: Series 2 (2014)[edit]

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series
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date

11
1
"The Ghost in the Machine"
Matt Carter
Rachel Flowerday
6 January 2014 (2014-01-06)

Father Brown investigates the disappearance of a parishioner, Charlotte McKinley, who believed she was being haunted by her sister who had disappeared nine years previously. Husband Victor (Andrew Havill), a struck-off doctor, is arrested as being responsible for the murder of both women.
Final appearance of Hugo Speer as Inspector Valentine. First appearance of Tom Chambers as Inspector Sullivan.

12
2
"The Maddest of All"
Matt Carter
Tahsin Guner
7 January 2014 (2014-01-07)

Ex-serviceman Felix Underwood (Peter Bramhill), a mental patient at the Danvers Retreat, dies suddenly in the street. Events take an unusual turn when he returns to life two days later at his church committal. Father Brown assists Inspector Sullivan to discover the reason for the resurrection, and gets himself committed at Danvers to covertly investigate the premises.

13
3
"The Pride of the Prydes"
Paul Gibson
Jude Tindall
8 January 2014 (2014-01-08)

The opening to the public of Pryde Castle, an estate mired in death duties, ends when guide Audrey Diggle (Marcia Warren), is struck and killed by an arrow. She was an expert on the Pryde's family history, including an old curse that the first born would be mad. Father Brown is convinced that the motive lies in the Pryde family's past, when a page from the parish birth records goes missing. All the family members are known to use a longbow.

14
4
"The Shadow of the Scaffold"
Paul Gibson
Rachel Flowerday
9 January 2014 (2014-01-09)

Violet Fernsley (Emma Stansfield), convicted of killing her pig-farmer husband whose body has never been found, is given a temporary reprieve from the gallows when she claims she is pregnant. The pregnancy test gives Father Brown three days to find the real killer. When her husband's finger turns up in a pig's stomach, it points to a serial killer amongst the family. Father Brown's investigation concludes God's law is above man's law.

15
5
"The Mysteries of the Rosary"
Ian Barber
Paul Matthew Thompson
10 January 2014 (2014-01-10)

The Lannington Rosary, missing for 500 years, is a relic blessed with healing powers. Professor Hilary Ambrose (James Laurenson) has sent an ancient prayer book containing a clue to its whereabouts to his old friend Father Brown, before he goes missing and his home is ransacked. Brown receives unexpected help from the untrustworthy Flambeau (John Light), returned from the dead. A terminally ill fellow priest, Father Ignatius (Anton Lesser), also desperately seeks the rosary to heal both himself and others.

16
6
"The Daughters of Jerusalem"
Matt Carter
Jude Tindall
13 January 2014 (2014-01-13)

Father Brown is laid up in his attic bedroom with a broken leg, and young Father Roland Eager is acting as his locum. His film of African orphans being shown at the Kembleford Women's Institute is switched for a pornographic film. In the following days, two members of the Institute are murdered, one poisoned and one stabbed with a hat pin. Inspector Sullivan arrests Dianah Fortescue, whose husband was earlier arrested in a Soho pornographic cinema. Brown investigates with the help of Mrs. McCarthy, Lady Felicia, Sid Carter, and a telescope.

17
7
"The Three Tools of Death"
Paul Gibson
Lol Fletcher
14 January 2014 (2014-01-14)

Alice Armstrong has been treated by electroshock therapy for memory loss and depression after she accidentally killed her mother. When her father is murdered and a rope, gun and knife are left behind, Magnus the chauffeur is suspected together with Peter, Armstrong's secretary, whom Alice loves. The truth of a father in debt leads Father Brown to another conclusion about the deaths.

18
8
"The Prize of Colonel Gerard"
Ian Barber
Dominique Moloney
15 January 2014 (2014-01-15)

Edward Gerard, a prisoner of war who returns from North Korea sympathetic to his captors, greatly displeases his martinet uncle, Colonel Cecil Gerard (Nicholas Jones), who threatens to commit him to an asylum. When the Colonel is murdered, the suspects include the nephew, the Colonel's daughter (an adopted Chinese girl) the nephew was going to run away with, the brother-in-law, and the victim's wife. Father Brown finds the solution lies in the family history and the Colonel's sexual intentions to his adopted daughter.

19
9
"The Grim Reaper"
Matt Carter
David Semple
16 January 2014 (2014-01-16)

Obnoxious farmer John Tatton has an equally obnoxious son, Alfred, who covets the young wife Oona (Maureen O'Connell) of Doctor Crawford (James Fleet). When Alfred is killed in a threshing machine, the doctor is suspected when accusatory poison pen letters appear. John Tatton believes his son was having an affair with the doctor's wife, who is pregnant.

20
10
"The Laws of Motion"
Paul Gibson
Tahsin Guner
17 January 2014 (2014-01-17)

Audrey MacMurray (Tracy-Ann Oberman) is a ruthless businesswoman with many enemies. While racing her car at a local hill climb track, she is killed when her brake line has been cut. Father Brown's investigation infuriates Inspector Sullivan, who already has his own suspect in custody, and the Inspector arrests Brown for a breach of the peace to put an end to his amateur sleuthing. While in jail however, Father Brown receives more information that makes him believe that he is right, and with Sid and Mrs. McCarthy, he escapes to convince them to do the right thing.

text: Series 3 (2015)[edit]

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Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date

21
1
"The Man in the Shadows"
Paul Gibson
Rob Kinsman
5 January 2015 (2015-01-05)

Sid stumbles across a dead man about to be put in a river and Inspector Sullivan covers-up the death as an accident. Sid is arrested when he and Father Brown investigate and Lady Felicia is blackmailed by an MI5 spymaster looking for a Soviet agent who has infiltrated an intelligence base in a stately home.

22
2
"The Curse of Amenhotep"
Matt Carter
Jude Tindall
6 January 2015 (2015-01-06)

The young wife of Sir Raleigh Beresford dies mysteriously after seeing the coffin of Amenhotep, an Egyptian mummy Beresford had brought back from his excavations some 26 years earlier where his first wife was killed during a rock fall; a curse on the coffin is suspected.

23
3
"The Invisible Man"
Matt Carter
Tahsin Guner
7 January 2015 (2015-01-07)

The circus returns to Kembleford and local waitress Laura is held to her promise given in jest the year before to marry the clown or the hypnotist. The clown is murdered; in his dying breath he names the hypnotist. Laura's boyfriend, the clown's girlfriend, and another clown are all suspected. Laura's willingness to marry the hypnotist puzzles Father Brown, even though he agrees to marry the couple.

24
4
"The Sign of the Broken Sword"
Ian Barber
Stephen McAteer
8 January 2015 (2015-01-08)

A major is murdered on an army base by a legendary broken sword during commemorations of the men killed during the evacuation of Dunkirk. The sword belonged to the regiment's colonel who used the sword to charge an enemy position with his men. Father Brown has to uncover the secret of two murders being kept to uphold the honour of the regiment. Loosely based on the 1911 story of the same title.

25
5
"The Last Man"
John Greening
Jude Tindall
9 January 2015 (2015-01-09)

The arrest of the new cricket captain of Kembleford's cricket team for the murder of the team's fast bowler, a suicide the year before in the cricket pavilion and a match against a rival village to determine the ownership of the cricket ground finds Father Brown consoling the victim's mother, solving a murder involving blackmail, playing cricket and watching Lady Felicia as the "last man" of the innings.

26
6
"The Upcott Fraternity"
Paul Gibson
Paul Matthew Thompson
12 January 2015 (2015-01-12)

Father Brown is visiting his old Rector (Dudley Sutton) at Upcott Seminary for trainee priests when a student commits suicide, Brown attempts to find the truth behind his death and a student a year earlier, both members of a secret fraternity that has closed ranks. Father Brown enlists Sid to go undercover as a trainee priest despite Mrs McCarthy's misgivings.

27
7
"The Kembleford Boggart"
John Greening
Jonathan Neil
13 January 2015 (2015-01-13)

The domineering father (Simon Williams) of a successful young writer, 22-year-old Hannah, is murdered in a locked room and the only suspect is an itinerant traveller who comes to Kembleford every year in a caravan with his mother. Father Brown's suspicions are aroused when the murder has the hallmarks of a boggart, an unwelcome infant from another world created by Hannah in her book.

28
8
"The Lair of the Libertines"
Matt Carter
Lol Fletcher
14 January 2015 (2015-01-14)

Father Brown, Mrs McCarthy and Felicia find themselves stranded at a hotel hired by Madame Chania (Ronni Ancona) and her guests, international playboys, seeking hedonistic pleasures. When a local prostitute is found murdered in the grounds and two of the guests are killed, Father Brown realises they are in the lair of a hunter intent on killing them all.

29
9
"The Truth in the Wine"
Ian Barber
Kit Lambert
15 January 2015 (2015-01-15)

A dead dog in a vat of wine precedes the shooting to death of an itinerant labourer and theft of wages from the safe in the study of Colonel Anthony Forbes-Leith, owner of a failing winery. Father Brown discovers none of the suspects are who they pretend to be.

30
10
"The Judgement of Man"
Ian Barber
Paul Matthew Thompson
16 January 2015 (2015-01-16)

An exhibition of valuable art at the Belvedere Museum includes a priceless artwork on loan from the Vatican. Father Brown spots his nemesis Hercule Flambeau (John Light), not realising he is a pawn in Flambeau's plan to steal the picture and wreak revenge on the museum's curator, a man who during the war had helped the Nazis loot paintings from Jewish families. Flambeau is shocked to find a woman from his past he thought dead seeking to avenge the death of her parents by killing the curator.

31
11
"The Time Machine"
Ian Barber
Tahsin Guner
19 January 2015 (2015-01-19)

Lady Felicia involves Father Brown with Jacob Francis, a young quantum physicist, who claims to have built a time machine so he can go back in time to prove his father was murdered in his locked laboratory by one of his family. When Francis proves his machine works he is murdered in the same laboratory, leaving Father Brown's only option to use the machine and see who killed the father and son.

32
12
"The Standing Stones"
Matt Carter
Rachel Flowerday
20 January 2015 (2015-01-20)

Father Brown and Mrs McCarthy visit the cottage hospital in the village of Standing where many of the children have been struck down by an outbreak of polio. When a local barmaid is found murdered at the local stone circle, her best friend Ginnie is arrested for her murder when it is discovered that they had fallen out over Ginnie blaming her for her son contracting polio. Unfortunately, the supposed murder weapon that is hoped will clear her only seems to strengthen the case against her. Then a local mystic makes a connection between the death and a legend about sacrificing an innocent at the stones – and someone tries to kill Ginnie and make it look like suicide.

33
13
"The Paradise of Thieves"
Diana Patrick
Rob Kinsman
21 January 2015 (2015-01-21)

Father Brown and Mrs McCarthy are at the local bank when armed raiders force the manager to open the locked safe using Father Brown as a witness. The robbers flee when the vault is opened and the manager's son-in-law is discovered dead inside. As the only key-holder, the manager is arrested by Inspector Sullivan. Father Brown uncovers fraud at the bank by the manager, financing a seedy nightclub owned by his son-in-law, but he needs Sid's help to break into the vault to discover how the murder was committed.

34
14
"The Deadly Seal"
Diana Patrick
Dan Muirden
22 January 2015 (2015-01-22)

Father Brown hears a penitent in confessional declare that they are going to kill Bishop Talbot the next day during a shooting party organised by a theatrical producer. Unable to reveal what he has heard, Father Brown also attends the shoot and although saving the Bishop, the Bishop's Assistant Albert Davies is killed instead. Father Brown discovers a deadly pact involving a child abuse victim and the murdered man's wife to kill another man while providing unbreakable alibis.

35
15
"The Owl of Minerva"
Matt Carter
Jude Tindall
23 January 2015 (2015-01-23)

A body of a journalist about to expose an offshoot of the Freemasons, The Owl of Minerva, is found dead in the woods. Inspector Sullivan's investigations find him on the run for killing a fellow detective and seeking sanctuary in the confessional at St Mary's. Father Brown, with the aid of Mrs McCarthy, Lady Felicia and Sid, rally round to try prove his innocence and protect him from a deadly organisation with members highly placed in the community.
Final appearance of Tom Chambers as Inspector Sullivan.

text: Series 4 (2016)[edit]

text: Series four filming commenced at Gloucester Cathedral in June 2015.[23][24]

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36
1
"The Mask of the Demon"
Paul Gibson
Jude Tindall
4 January 2016 (2016-01-04)

Lady Felicia knows the Hollywood star Rex Bishop who is in Kembleford filming a "B" movie The Brides of the Demon. He invites Father Brown and Mrs McCarthy, a fan of Bishop, to view the filming. Tensions are evident between the film's participants, the director, his actress wife, a starlet, Rex Bishop, and the writer. The director is found dead wearing a demon's mask and Inspector Mallory does not appreciate Father Brown's help.
First appearance of Jack Deam as Inspector Mallory. Filming took place at Coughton Court.[25]

37
2
"The Brewer's Daughter"
Paul Gibson
Kit Lambert
5 January 2016 (2016-01-05)

Sid falls for Grace Fitzgerald, the married heiress to a brewery, and is her alibi when Mallory arrests her for murdering her father in a fire. Fitzgerald, refusing to use Sid as an alibi, asks Father Brown to search for the real killer and he uncovers evidence that Fitzgerald's husband and her younger sister killed the father. The suicide and a note left by another lover of Fitzgerald complicates the issue as he had been sacked by her husband when he caught them kissing.

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"The Hangman's Demise"
David Beauchamp
Dan Muirden
6 January 2016 (2016-01-06)

A former hangman, Henry Lee, is confronted at his wedding anniversary by a mother about her son whom he executed a year before for the murder of a court secretary – an execution where the condemned man whispered to Lee the identity of the real killer. The following morning Lee is poisoned with hemlock. His friend George, an ex-policeman, is arrested and released. The mother, recently released from prison, is arrested and a motive for Lee's wife emerges. Father Brown untangles a web of deceit and corruption in the police as Lee lays dying.

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"The Crackpot of the Empire"
David Beauchamp
Lol Fletcher
7 January 2016 (2016-01-07)

Father Brown is apprehensive when he receives an invitation to a party given by the recently-released Uncle Mirth, a former music hall comedian whom Brown helped put in an asylum. When Brown and the other invitees arrive at the venue, a derelict warehouse, he and Mirth's brother find envelopes containing their death certificates. Inspector Mallory finds another death certificate for a second brother who had died of a heart attack outside the presbytery the previous day.

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"The Daughter of Autolycus"
Paul Gibson
Jude Tindall
8 January 2016 (2016-01-08)

Father Brown knows the Pope's coronation gift to the Queen of a priceless cross is too tempting to Flambeau and Brown convinces the Bishop to let him guard it. Flambeau arrives on Brown's doorstep seeking his help to steal the cross in order to save the life of his daughter whom he has never met, and who has been kidnapped by Flambeau's criminal partner he once left for dead. Before they can steal the cross it goes missing from the Bishop's Palace. Brown has underestimated Papal politics, Flambeau's daughter, and the consciences of men.

41
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"The Rod of Asclepius"
David Beauchamp
Jude Tindall
11 January 2016 (2016-01-11)

Lady Felicia's reckless driving lands her and Mrs McCarthy in adjoining hospital beds. A new admittance to the ward dies the following morning on the operating table. A nurse claims it is murder and is found dead the same afternoon, forcing Inspector Mallory to do more than his initial cursory investigation. Father Brown, once Sid makes it past the officious substitute Parish Secretary and notifies him of developments, follows a different line of inquiry and Lady Felicia and Mrs McCarthy's snooping put the latter in danger on the same operating table.

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"The Missing Man"
David Beauchamp
Rachel Flowerday
12 January 2016 (2016-01-12)

A pilot returns from the dead after eight years as Father Brown is about to marry his wife to his brother. No-one except his daughter is pleased to see him, especially his father who believes him to be a deserter. When the returnee is found shot in the head and blood-stained women's clothing is found, Inspector Mallory charges the wife, dismissing the daughter's claims that another woman entered the house. Father Brown finds a visiting card for a cross-dressing bar, realises the identity of the real killer and that they cannot be exposed.

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"The Resurrectionists"
James Larkin
Rob Kinsman
13 January 2016 (2016-01-13)

Father Brown is puzzled when the grave of a recent burial is opened and the body is missing, only for it to turn up at the premises of a different undertaker. Inspector Mallory is even more mystified as the victim died of decapitation in a motor cycle accident with no sign of other injury. The undertaker is arrested and the animosity between him and the victim's mother is evident for all to see. Father Brown uncovers the reason behind their hatred and the forbidden love which the victim had for the undertaker's daughter.

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"The Sins of the Father"
Paul Gibson
Al Smith
14 January 2016 (2016-01-14)

Robert Twyman, a leading aeronautics magnate, receives a note that his son, a piano player and contestant in a local variety show, would be killed if he does not confess. Next morning the son is found strangled next to his piano in a locked house with only his father and butler present. Twyman is convinced a journalist piano-player rival of his son is the killer. Inspector Mallory arrests Twyman after Lady Felicia finds him standing over the dead body of the journalist by her piano. Father Brown notices that both pianists had been somehow playing the same music and the answer is to be found in a book given to him by Doctor Mordaunt Jackson, a psycho-analyst currently giving a lecture in Kembleford.

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"The Wrath of Baron Samdi"
James Larkin
Tahsin Guner
15 January 2016 (2016-01-15)

Baron Samdi is the voodoo spirit of the dead that Emmanuel Jannite invokes when he follows his love, Yveline Lafond, to Kembleford. Lafond is working as lead singer in a Haitian jazz band. The band leader, also in love with Lafond, is found dead in a swimming pool, poisoned, and Jannite dies following a police chase. Inspector Mallory believes the case closed but Father Brown's snooping uncovers the real killer. As he confronts the culprit, Brown collapses after being informed that he has already been poisoned that morning.
Final regular appearance of Alex Price as Sid Carter.

text: Series 5 (2016–17)[edit]

text: The first episode of the fifth series also serves as a Christmas special episode.

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1
"The Star of Jacob"
Paul Gibson
Jude Tindall
23 December 2016 (2016-12-23)

The Duke of Frome, John Langton, with his wife, their baby born after complications during childbirth, a domineering nanny, nursery maid and valet arrive at Montague Hall for Lady Felicia's Yuletide ball. During the evening the baby is taken from his cot. Inspector Mallory suspects an inside job by the valet when his secret wife arrives while Brown is more interested in the birth of the baby at a home for unmarried mothers. Mrs McCarthy, under pressure from the diocese to provide a Christmas service fit for a Duke, receives unexpected help from a vagrant, Michael Negal, she finds sleeping in the confessional.

47
2
"The Labyrinth of the Minotaur"
Paul Gibson
Jude Tindall
2 January 2017 (2017-01-02)

Robert Malmort and Joan Vanderlande are brought together by their respective parents with a view to marriage. When the maid Ruby is found dead, Lady Felicia's niece, Bunty, is suspected. Father Brown suspects the answer lies at the end of a Labyrinth and a sad secret the Malmorts are hiding. Following her latest scandalous headlines Bunty's father insists she stay in Kembleford and Felicia needs her to look after her home as she is leaving with her husband, Monty, who has been appointed Governor of Northern Rhodesia. Final appearance of Nancy Carroll as Lady Felicia Montague. First appearance of Emer Kenny as "Bunty" Windermere.

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"The Eve of St John"
Gary Williams
Jude Tindall
3 January 2017 (2017-01-03)

Kembleford District Council holds an emergency meeting attended by the local clergy to discuss a coven in Crow's wood. Father Brown's liberal views on witchcraft do not go down well and when the body of one of the coven is found dead, feelings run high in the village. Tensions are fanned by the Reverend Gillespie, a Methodist minister whose wife and daughter died in the blitz. Father Brown invites the warlock; Eugene Bone, his partner; Selina Crow, new initiate; Dione Moon and the Reverend Allsworthy to dinner. Mrs McCarthy sends Bunty to gather mushrooms for her soup and over dinner. Allsworthy, smitten by Bunty, has reason to propose marriage.

49
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"The Chedworth Cyclone"
Paul Gibson
Paul Matthew Thompson
4 January 2017 (2017-01-04)

Roy Tomkins, a washed up boxer and rival of Jed Cornish – the 'Chedworth Cyclone' – is found dead. Father Brown is drawn into the shady world of London Boxing promoter and racketeer, Denis Nelson, who is involved in illegal betting, fixed fights, and blackmail. Jed, suspected of murder, is arrested and then bailed into the care of Father Brown who uncovers Jed's secret love for Nelson's girlfriend. She has lured a town councillor into a compromising position so Nelson can obtain a boxing venue. Father Brown has to uncover the murderer, ensure a fair fight and break Nelson's hold over everyone.

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"The Hand of Lucia"
Paul Gibson
Lol Fletcher
5 January 2017 (2017-01-05)

Bankrupt writer of erotic novel 'Lulu and Lucia', Lucia Morell is murdered with an axe and her hand removed. Subject of a previous attack, her threat to reveal on whom Lulu was based is thought to be the motive. Suspects include Lady Ursula Lansford of Uxbridge who runs a home for released female prisoners, Lansford's son whom Lucia humiliated, the gardener, and two ex-prisoners. Bunty becomes ill after eating the gardener's soup and one of the girls is poisoned; and when the hand is discovered in Lady Ursula's private bathroom the gardener confesses. Father Brown believes the answer is in the novel, leading to tragic consequences.

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"The Eagle and the Daw"
Gary Williams
Kit Lambert
6 January 2017 (2017-01-06)

Katherine Corven, awaiting execution for murdering her husband, summons Father Brown, who helped to convict her, to hear her confession; that she has arranged the death of her lover Raymond Worrall. When Inspector Mallory finds Worrall, in a locked cottage, dead from a gunshot to the head and Father Brown in possession of a pistol and the key to the cottage, he arrests him on suspicion of murder. Bunty and McCarthy seek to prove his innocence and Sergeant Goodfellow contrives his escape from the police station cell. A Jackdaw egg at the cottage provides Father Brown with a clue to explain the death of Worrall.

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"The Smallest of Things"
Bob Thomson
Tahshin Guner
9 January 2017 (2017-01-09)

Agnes Lesser creates aids to detection in the form of dioramas of crime scenes. She invites Father Brown to an awards ceremony at her home where she unveils an exact diorama of her mother' death, at the bottom of a staircase 10 years previously, to the shocked guests including her father, the Chief Constable, and the detective who investigated at the time; hoping the death would be reinvestigated. When the detective is murdered after removing a miniature newspaper from the diorama; Inspector Mallory is arrested for his murder and Father Brown realises the newspaper holds the clue to the tragic events that had befallen the Lesser family including the death of Agnes younger sister by drowning.

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"The Crimson Feather"
Paul Gibson
Kit Lambert
10 January 2017 (2017-01-10)

Joselyn, Mrs McCarthy' niece and god-daughter, visits and then disappears. A red feather leads Father Brown to a private gentlemen's club, The Crimson Feather. With Bunty's help Father Brown discovers Joselyn is at the club where she has been working for months. When one of the other girls, Verity, is murdered at the club wearing Joselyn's costume; Bunty goes undercover as Pepper Seymore, a burlesque dancer, and Mrs McCarthy as a cleaner take jobs at the club looking for clues. Father Brown uncovers a pregnant victim, jealously, unrequited love, blackmail and other services being offered within the club.

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"The Lepidopterist's Companion"
Paul Gibson
Kit Lambert
11 January 2017 (2017-01-11)

Mrs McCarthy looks after Kembleford's Mobile Library when the manager, Margaret Cartwright, is discovered injured in the library by her assistant Ada. Cartwright's husband, a photographer, accidentally kills his assistant, Lewis, boyfriend of Ada, with a cricket bat believing him a burglar. Lewis is found to have been poisoned and Father Brown discovers his cache of nude photographs of local girls. One of the photographs is of Ada. Inspector Mallory arrests the photographer while Father Brown wonders why a book, The Lepidopterist's Companion, is loaned out so often for only a day or two, and who used the photographer's studio where the pictures were taken. Mrs McCarthy walks out with a ne'er-do-well.

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"The Alchemist's Secret"
Simon Gibney
Rob Kinsman
12 January 2017 (2017-01-12)

Professor Hilary Ambrose, who is experiencing memory loss and delusions, seeks the help of Father Brown to solve a riddle over 300 years old relating to an Alchemist who hid a formula believed to turn lead into gold. When one of his students is murdered and the evidence points to Ambrose, Inspector Mallory arrests him. To prove his innocence Father Brown has to solve the riddle, find the hidden formula, and discover the real killer. Discovering the terrible secret of the formula, and the killer, poses a dilemma for Father Brown but explains why an entire village, Thorndyke, disappeared from the map over 300 years ago.

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"The Sins of Others"
Diana Patrick
Tahsin Guner
13 January 2017 (2017-01-13)

Sid Carter is released from prison after a year following his conviction of assault on Judith Miles, then a prostitute, now working in a solicitors office. Bent on revenge, Sid confronts his defence lawyer Giles Foster, now a judge, with Father Brown at the home of a Edward Reese who appointed Foster. When Foster is found dead from stabbing by a glass to the throat, Sid is accused by Reese's son of the murder. Father Brown becomes a target of a paid assassin and his only clue a pail of ashes.
First guest appearance of Alex Price as Sid Carter

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"The Theatre of the Invisible"
Bob Thomson
David Semple
16 January 2017 (2017-01-16)

The radio quiz show Up to You comes to Kembleford and Mrs McCarthy and Bunty win an audition to become contestants. When their landlady is murdered by smoke from a blocked chimney, yet her three kittens survived. The three cast members and new producer, who falls for Bunty and wants to impress, are suspected. Father Brown is concerned when Bunty invites the cast members to stay at Montague Hall. Bunty finds the show announcer's diary revealing his colourful lifestyle and his new found prospects. When he is found dead in a locked bathroom Father Brown realises Bunty and blackmail are the motives.

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"The Tanganyika Green"
Simon Gibney
Catherine Skinner
17 January 2017 (2017-01-17)

Aldous Kemp and his daughter Grace arrive in Kembleford for the County Fair to sell a valuable item so he can pay for her training as a doctor. An employee of the East African Postal Service which he had in common with John Hammond whose father's business is failing. When Kemp is murdered Inspector Mallory arrests first the daughter, then John Hammond. Father Brown recognises John's skill as an engraver and that the Tanganyika Green is a stamp. Bunty lodges the antiques valuer at Montague Hall and is surprised when petrol is stolen from her car while Mrs McCarthy believes he's a fraud.

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"The Fire in the Sky"
Diana Patrick
Kit Lambert
18 January 2017 (2017-01-18)

Fear of alien invasion hits Kembleford as Charlotte, daughter of widower William Bailey, goes missing overnight and lights are seen in the sky. Charlotte arrives at the police station and collapses from injury and abdominal pains. The hospital doctor, a war hero, confirms she is pregnant. William Bailey is found dead the following day from poisoning and Inspector Mallory arrests his gardener, Sean Crimp, he had recently dismissed who was Charlotte's boyfriend. More lights in the sky overnight and Crimp disappears from his police cell. Father Brown finds the answer in a science fiction comic that the younger brother of Charlotte's hospital nurse is reading.

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"The Penitent Man"
Paul Gibson
Tahsin Guner
19 January 2017 (2017-01-19)

Hercule Flambeau awaiting trial for murder asks for Father Brown to act as his chaplain and professes his innocence yet at his pre-trial hearing he pleads guilty and is condemned to death. Father Brown realises he is part of Flambeau's plan to find a gold medallion hidden by the architect of the prison that Flambeau is being held. A plan that begins to unravel when Flambeau's victim fails to reappear after he is murdered by his wife intent on obtaining the gold medallion for herself. Father Brown has to engineer Flambeau's escape from the death cell.

text: Series 6 (2017–18)[edit]

text: The first episode of the sixth series also serves as a Christmas special episode.[26]

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"The Tree of Truth"
Paul Gibson
Jude Tindall
18 December 2017 (2017-12-18)

A skeleton from a seven-year-old murder case is found buried in the woods, bringing doubts on the conviction of the confessed killer. Inspector Mallory and Father Brown reinvestigate the murder. Sid Carter brings letters for Father Brown and Bunty as well as a Christmas present for Mrs McCarthy. Father Brown, Mrs McCarthy, and Bunty audition for the local amateur pantomime, Cinderella, but do not get the roles expected. Sid is recruited to partner Father Brown; Mallory and Sergeant Goodfellow also get roles as the ugly sisters. When an accident happens during rehearsals, Father Brown realises the truth lies within the theatre.
Second guest appearance of Alex Price as Sid Carter and voice-over cameo of Nancy Carroll as Lady Felicia.

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"The Jackdaw's Revenge"
Gary Williams
Kit Lambert
2 January 2018 (2018-01-02)

Katherine Corven awaiting execution for murdering her husband is reprieved on the confession of her housekeeper. Father Brown is afraid she will take revenge on his friends. A wardress from Corven's prison is found hanged in a locked cottage and Corven's alibi is provided by the Mother Superior of a convent where she is training as a postulant. A local reporter pursues Father Brown, accusing him in the press of impropriety with Corven. Bunty goes missing while Father Brown is blackmailed to confirm the story under the threat of Bunty's life. A Jackdaw flying in the church gives Father Brown the clue to the death of the wardress.

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"The Kembleford Dragon"
Christiana Ebohon-Green
David Semple
3 January 2018 (2018-01-03)

British Railways proposes closing Kembleford Station due to no profitability, causing its stationmaster Ben Webb, to have a heart attack. A fete to save the station finds Webb bludgeoned to death in a trunk on the platform. Learning Webb was a philanderer over many years gives Father Brown many suspects ranging from his pregnant wife Julia, a bus company boss, a British Railways manager, and the church's new cleaner Pandora. The murder is complicated by the fact that Webb died from drowning.

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"The Angel of Mercy"
Niall Fraser
Dan Muirden
4 January 2018 (2018-01-04)

Mrs McCarthy's friend, Freda, dies in her sleep at a care home. Father Brown suspects foul play when he smells an unusual odour from the body. Animosity between Freda's son and Freda's new friend, Charlie, who is to inherit Freda's estate arouses Father Brown's suspicions until Charlie dies in his sleep. Another death and Mallory arrests Freda's son. All the victims were terminally ill and a white feather at each scene confirmed they were complicit in their own death by an angel of mercy. Bunty's friend, Ellen, who is terminally ill and uses a wheelchair, goes missing and Bunty fears the worst after finding a white feather in her room.

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"The Face of the Enemy"
Christiana Ebohon-Green
Tahsin Guner
5 January 2018 (2018-01-05)

Felicia and Sid return from Northern Rhodesia and visit Kembleford while her husband, Monty, is in London. Felicia finds herself blackmailed by a MI5 agent, Daniel Whittaker to exchange a roll of film one of her lovers, a known soviet agent, has. At a party her task goes wrong when a sculptor is shot dead and Whittaker orders Mallory to find Felicia as the prime suspect. Father Brown becomes involved with spies, British and Soviet, not knowing who is friend or foe, traitor or patriot. Lady Felicia has to choose between lover and husband and Moscow get the film they do not expect.
Third guest appearance of Alex Price as Sid Carter and second guest appearance of Nancy Carroll as Lady Felicia.

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"The Devil You Know"
Niall Fraser
Jude Tindall
8 January 2018 (2018-01-08)

Alec Frobisher, deputy commander at Scotland Yard, is garrotted at Kembleford Bowls club. Inspector Mallory is taken off the case as he was present at the time. Replaced by Inspector Ironside who is after Mallory's job; Mallory seeks Father Brown's help. Frobisher was with the War Crimes Commission and war time memories are stirred up when Mallory and Father Brown discover Eric and Christina Worcester, from Poland had respectively connections with the SS and concentration camp survivor. When Eric commits suicide; a typewritten suicide note gives Father Brown the clue to the killer of Frobisher.

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"The Dance of Death"
Piotr Szkopiak
Rob Kinsman
9 January 2018 (2018-01-09)

Father Brown , Mrs McCarthy, and Bunty attend a ballroom competition and one of the contestants, Lucy Dawes, is murdered; her blind dancing partner Alexander Walgrave, who found the body, believes he knows who the murderer is and asks Father Brown and Bunty prove it. A necklace Lucy was wearing is missing and Inspector Mallory arrests Lucy's fiancé Oliver when he is found in possession of it. Father Brown realises the answer lies some time ago when Alexander was blinded when pushed downstairs. To continue his investigation Brown, McCarthy and Bunty join the competition.

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"The Cat of Mastigatus"
Piotr Szkopiak
Mark Hiser & Bridget Colgan
10 January 2018 (2018-01-10)

St Saviours schoolgirl, May Lewis, is found with a serious head injury in the boiler room of the adjoining boys school. Father Brown discovers the weapon, a cricket bat, and Inspector Mallory arrests the owner; schoolboy Daniel Gates her boyfriend. In hospital May is attacked again and her suspected attacker, gardener Jack Coll, is found dead. Father Brown uncovers years of bullying at the school and the use of a modified cat o' nine tails.

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"The Flower of the Fairway"
Gary Williams
Rachel Flowerday
11 January 2018 (2018-01-11)

Raylan Reeve, an ostentatious American opens a golf course and during the inaugural competition The Flower of the Fairway for women and Bunty taking part, as her father had cut her allowance, finds a body in the reeds. Inspector Mallory allows the contest to continue when a gunshot is heard and Reeve is found shot dead in his study. Mallory arrests neighbour Hermione Harvey who had a revolver and hated Reeve. Father Brown investigates the family; father, daughter, and granddaughter and uncovers a dark family secret.

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"The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau"
Paul Gibson
Kit Lambert
12 January 2018 (2018-01-12)

Two items catch Father Brown's eye in the newspaper: Flambeau's death in Italy and the Iron Crown of Lombardy containing a nail from the True Cross on display at Gloucester cathedral. Father Brown opens a letter with a key that Flambeau had sent to him a few days before his death. A woman claiming to be his wife Lisandra Flambeau wants the key, but it is stolen while the presbytery is empty. Father Brown becomes part of an elaborate plan of Flambeau and his wife to steal the crown requiring a key and a combination to a safe. Flambeau double crosses his wife and to flush out her husband, she injects Father Brown with a slow-acting poison.

text: Series 7 (2019)[edit]

text: On 14 June 2018, the BBC announced that the crime drama would be returning for a seventh series in early 2019, with filming having taken place during the summer of 2018. No indication was given as to how many episodes it would comprise.[27]

text: Broadcast[edit]

text: Father Brown has been sold to 162 territories by BBC Worldwide.[28] Broadcasters across the world including Australia (ABC), the Netherlands (KRO-NCRV, BBC First), Finland (YLE), Sweden (TV8), Denmark (DR), Norway (NRK), Estonia (ETV) and Iceland (RÚV). In the US, Father Brown has been sold to 40 public television stations with a reach of 30% of all US television households. The first four series were added to Netflix streaming service on 31 March 2017.[29]

text: DVD (Region 2) and Blu-ray (Region B)[edit]

text:
Series 1 released in March 2014
Series 2 released in June 2014
Series 3 released in March 2015
Series 4 released in March 2016
Series 5 released in February 2017
Series 6 released in February 2018

text: The Region 2/Region B UK releases are published by Dazzler Media.

text: The series has also been released on DVD (but not Blu-ray) in the USA, Australia, the Netherlands and Germany.

text: Reception[edit]

text: Christopher Stevens from the Daily Mail gave Father Brown four stars out of five.[30]


document_title: Rickon Stark

question_text: game of thrones what happened to the youngest stark boy

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text: Rickon Stark

text: Character description[edit]

text: Rickon is the youngest son of Eddard "Ned" Stark and his wife Catelyn, and has five siblings—Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran and his father's illegitimate son Jon Snow. Like his brothers and sisters, Rickon is constantly accompanied by his direwolf, Shaggydog, with whom he shares a strong connection. Martin describes Rickon as favoring his mother in appearance.[4] He is naturally aggressive, strong-willed, and violent: traits reflected in his direwolf companion 'Shaggydog'.[5]

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text: Overview[edit]

text: Rickon Stark is not a point of view character in the novels, so his actions are witnessed and interpreted through the eyes of other people, such as his older brother, Brandon Stark. Rickon is mostly a background character in the novels.[6]

text: Storylines[edit]

text: A Game of Thrones[edit]

text: In A Game of Thrones (1996), Ned Stark departs Winterfell with his daughters to serve King Robert Baratheon in King's Landing, while his wife Catelyn remains behind with their sons, grief-stricken over their comatose son Bran. An overwhelmed young Rickon can only follow around his oldest brother Robb, crying.[7] Upset when Robb prepares to leave himself, Rickon hides in the crypts of Winterfell. Shortly after Ned's death in King's Landing, both Bran and Rickon share a vision of their father's spirit in the crypts.[4]

text: A Clash of Kings[edit]

text: Following Ned's death, Rickon is largely unsupervised as Robb and Catelyn leave for war and his sisters are held captive at King's Landing in 1998's A Clash of Kings. Alone with his crippled brother Bran, Rickon develops an unruly, often violent temper. His fear and rage are reflected in Shaggydog, who turns largely feral and attacks several people before being restrained. Several times, Bran's direwolf Summer is forced to fight Shaggydog into submission. Bran and Rickon become Theon Greyjoy's hostages when Theon takes Winterfell by force. He later manages to escape and hide in the crypts below the castle with Bran, Hodor, the Reed siblings Meera and Jojen and the wildling woman Osha.[8] After Winterfell is sacked and burned by Ramsay Bolton, the group emerges to find Winterfell in ruins, and a mortally wounded Maester Luwin tells them that Bran and Rickon need to be separated and taken into hiding.[9] Osha flees with Rickon in her care, and the others accompany Bran.

text: A Dance with Dragons[edit]

text: In A Dance with Dragons (2011), most of Westeros believes Rickon dead, but Lord Wyman Manderly hears from a survivor of the sack of Winterfell that Rickon is allegedly alive and has fled with a woman to the island of Skagos. Skagos is a large, northern island in the mouth of the Bay of Seals and is subject to the rule of House Stark. In return for pledging his loyalty to Stannis Baratheon instead of the Lannisters, Manderly tasks Ser Davos Seaworth with retrieving Rickon from Skagos so that they may reveal him to the Northern lords and inspire them to rally against Roose Bolton, Ramsay Bolton and Walder Frey for betraying the Starks.

text: Family tree of House Stark[edit]

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Descendants of Rickard Stark

Rickard[a]

Lyarra[b]

Brandon[a]

Catelyn
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Eddard[a]

Lyanna[a][d]

Benjen[a]

Robb[c]

Jeyne
Westerling[e]

Sansa[c]

Tyrion
Lannister[f]

Arya[c]

Brandon[c]

Rickon[c]

Jon
Snow[c][d]

Notes:

^ Jump up to: a b c d e Martin, George R. R. (1996). "Chapter 4: Eddard". A Game of Thrones. pp. 36–45. ISBN 978-0-553-89784-5.
Jump up ^ Martin, George R. R.; García Jr., Elio M.; Antonsson, Linda (2014). "Appendix: Stark Lineage". The World of Ice & Fire. ISBN 978-0-553-80544-4.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Martin. "Appendix: House Stark". A Game of Thrones. pp. 785–786.
^ Jump up to: a b In the TV series Game of Thrones, Jon is the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna
Jump up ^ Martin, George R. R. (2000). "Chapter 14: Catelyn". A Storm of Swords. pp. 192–193. ISBN 978-0-553-89787-6.
Jump up ^ Martin, George R. R. (2000). "Chapter 28: Sansa". A Storm of Swords. pp. 382–393. ISBN 978-0-553-89787-6.

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text: TV adaptation[edit]

text: Rickon Stark is played by Art Parkinson in the television adaption of the series of books.[10][11] During an interview with Flicks and the City in 2014, Parkinson mentioned that he was not allowed by his parents to watch Game of Thrones due to its adult content, apart from a few scenes that were related to him.[12] In a later interview published in the New Zealand Herald on 7 April 2015, Parkinson admitted that he was put-off watching Game of Thrones after seeing a three-year old child getting his throat slit in one episode.[13] In a later interview with IGN, he admitted that he is now watching the series.[14][15]

text: In an interview, Parkinson spoke about his return and death. Parkinson stated, "Whenever I was told that I was coming back for Season 6, before they sent me through the scripts and stuff, they sent me through a ring just to say, "Listen, so that you don't get a shock whenever you read the scripts, just know that you die this season."[14] He continued, "Whenever I came back, I was excited to come back, and the scenes all seemed pretty amazing. I was so happy to re-embrace the character."[14]

text: Parkinson has said that his fellow castmember Natalia Tena, who played Rickon's travelling companion Osha, helped him in his acting.[16] He also noted about what he believes Rickon went through after the death of his father Ned Stark, saying "After the death of his father, I think he became very independent and very angry, I think Rickon is a little bit more mature now. He's been away for quite a long time at this point. I think he's a bit more independent and stronger-willed.[16]

text: Remarking on the character's exit and death:

text: It was sad at first, but once I realized how I was going to die in it, then it was cool. It was a cool death, and it was always going to be a good death, so at the same time, I was pretty happy.[14]

text: Storylines[edit]

text: Rickon Stark is Lord Eddard and Lady Catelyn's youngest child, naturally aggressive and strong-willed. His black dire wolf Shaggydog shares these qualities also. When Theon Greyjoy captures Winterfell in Season 2, Rickon hides in the crypts. After Theon can't seem to find where Rickon and Bran are, he then kills two farm boys to pass their bodies off as the Stark boys. After Winterfell is sacked and burned, he, Bran, Hodor, the Wildling woman Osha and the direwolves travel through the North.[17] In Season 3 before they reach the Wall, Rickon, his direwolf and Osha split up from the rest of the group heading to Last Hearth, the seathouse of the Umbers.[18]

text: Sixth season[edit]

text: Following Lord Greatjon Umber's death, Rickon and Osha are betrayed by his heir Smalljon and handed over to the new Warden of the North, Ramsay Bolton, in order to secure an alliance with the Boltons against the wildlings Jon Snow has let through the Wall. To prove Rickon's identity, Smalljon kills Shaggydog and presents his head to Ramsay. Ramsay kills Osha and locks Rickon in the dungeons, sending a letter to Jon at Castle Black demanding the return of Sansa Stark (his wife) and threatening to kill Rickon if Jon does not comply. In retaliation Jon gathers an army of Stark loyalists and marches on Winterfell, now occupied by House Bolton.[19]

text: As the armies prepare for battle outside Winterfell, Ramsay brings out Rickon and orders him to run to Jon as one of his sadistic "games", shooting arrows at Rickon in order to lure Jon into the open. Jon charges out to save Rickon, but Rickon is shot through the heart and dies almost instantly.[20] In the aftermath of the ensuing battle, Rickon's body is recovered and Jon buries him in the crypt, alongside Ned's remains.[21]

text: Because many Northern noble houses were plotting against the Boltons in the books, the show's decision to have them betray Rickon led to fan theories that the direwolf head Smalljon Umber showed to Ramsay was fake and that the Umbers would turn on the Boltons. Parkinson dispelled the rumours, saying that the direwolf head was intended to be real.[22][15][19] Rickon's death scene referenced his first appearance in the series pilot, where he laughs at a poor archery shot before handing off arrows to the archer and running to stand by the target.[23]


document_title: National Environmental Policy Act

question_text: what event most affected the passage of the national environmental protection act of 1969

text: National Environmental Policy Act

text: History[edit]

text: NEPA grew out of the increased public appreciation and concern for the environment that developed during the during the 1960s, amid increased industrialization, urban and suburban growth, and pollution across the United States. During this time, environmental interest group efforts and the growing public awareness resulting from Rachel Carson's 1962 book, Silent Spring, led to support for the 1964 Wilderness Act and subsequent legislation (including the 1970 Clean Air Act and 1972 Clean Water Act).[6] The public outrage in reaction to the Santa Barbara oil spill in early 1969 occurred just as the NEPA legislation was being drafted in Congress. Another major driver for enacting NEPA were the 1960s highway revolts, a series of protests in many American cities that occurred in response to the bulldozing of many communities and ecosystems during the construction of the Interstate Highway System.[7]

text: Since its passage, NEPA has been applied to any major project, whether on a federal, state, or local level, that involves federal funding, work performed by the federal government, or permits issued by a federal agency. Court decisions have expanded the requirement for NEPA-related environmental studies to include actions where permits issued by a federal agency are required regardless of whether federal funds are spent to implement the action, to include actions that are entirely funded and managed by private-sector entities where a federal permit is required. This legal interpretation is based on the rationale that obtaining a permit from a federal agency requires one or more federal employees (or contractors in some instances) to process and approve a permit application, inherently resulting in federal funds being expended to support the proposed action, even if no federal funds are directly allocated to finance the particular action.

text: Contents[edit]

text: The preamble to NEPA reads:

text: NEPA contains three sections: the first section outlines national environmental policies and goals; the second establishes provisions for federal agencies to enforce such policies and goals; and the third establishes the CEQ in the Executive Office of the President.

text: The purpose of NEPA is to ensure that environmental factors are weighted equally when compared to other factors in the decision making process undertaken by federal agencies and to establish a national environmental policy. The act also promotes the CEQ to advise the President in the preparation of an annual report on the progress of federal agencies in implementing NEPA. It also established the CEQ to advise the president on environmental policy and the state of the environment.[8]

text: NEPA establishes this national environmental policy by requiring federal agencies to prepare an environmental impact statement to accompany reports and recommendations for Congressional funding. This impact statement is known as an EIS. NEPA is an action-forcing piece of legislation, meaning the act itself does not carry any criminal or civil sanctions, and therefore, all enforcement of NEPA must occur through the court system. In practice, a project is required to meet NEPA guidelines when a federal agency provides any portion of financing for the project. However, review of a project by a federal employee can be viewed as a federal action, and in such a case, it requires NEPA-compliant analysis performance.

text: NEPA covers a vast array of federal agency actions, but the act does not apply to state action where there is a complete absence of federal influence or funding. Exemptions and exclusions are also present within NEPA's guidelines, including specific federal projects detailed in legislation and EPA exemptions. Exemptions also apply when compliance with other environmental laws require an impact analysis similar to that mandated by NEPA. Such laws can include but are not limited to the Clean Air Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.

text: Process[edit]

text: The NEPA process is the evaluation of the relevant environmental effects of a federal project or action mandated by NEPA. This process begins when an agency develops a proposal addressing a need to take action. If it is determined that the proposed action is covered under NEPA, there are three levels of analysis that a federal agency must undertake to comply with the law. These three levels include the preparation of a Categorical Exclusion (CatEx); an environmental assessment (EA); and either a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI), or, alternatively, the preparation and drafting of an environmental impact statement (EIS).[9]

text: Preparation of a Categorical Exclusion[edit]

text: A Categorical Exclusion (CatEx) is a list of actions an agency has determined do not individually or cumulatively affect the quality of the human environment (40 C.F.R. §1508.4). If a proposed action is included in an agency's CatEx, the agency must make sure that no extraordinary circumstances might cause the proposed action to affect the environment. Extraordinary circumstances include effects on endangered species, protected cultural sites, and wetlands.[10][11] If the proposed action is not included in the description provided in the CatEx, an EA must be prepared.[10][11] Actions similar to the proposed one may have been found to be environmentally neutral in previous EAs and their implementation, and so an agency may amend their implementing regulations to include the action as a CatEx. In this case, the drafted agency procedures are published in the Federal Register and a public comment period is required.[10][11] An agency cannot rely on a CatEx prepared by a different agency to support a decision not to prepare an EA or EIS for a planned action; however, it may draw from another agency's experience with a comparable CatEx in seeking to substantiate a CatEx of its own.[12]

text: Preparation of an Environmental Assessment and a Finding of No Significant Impact[edit]

text: EAs are concise public documents that include the need for a proposal, a list of alternatives, and a list of agencies and persons consulted in the proposal's drafting. The purpose of an EA is to determine the significance of the proposal's environmental outcomes and to look at alternatives of achieving the agency's objectives. An EA is supposed to provide sufficient evidence and analysis for determining whether to prepare an EIS, aid an agency's compliance with NEPA when no EIS is necessary, and it facilitates preparing an EIS when one is necessary.[13]

text: Most agency procedures do not require public involvement prior to finalizing an EA document; however, agencies advise that a public comment period is considered at the draft EA stage. EAs need to be of sufficient length to ensure that the underlying decision to prepare an EIS is legitimate, but they should not attempt to substitute an EIS.

text: If no substantial effects on the environment are found after investigation and the drafting of an EA, the agency must produce a FONSI. This document explains why an action will not have a significant effect on the human environment and includes the EA or a summary of the EA that supports the FONSI determination.

text: Preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement[edit]

text: If it is determined that a proposed federal action does not fall within a designated CatEx or does not qualify for a FONSI, then the responsible agency must prepare an EIS. The purpose of an EIS is to help public officials make informed decisions based on the relevant environmental consequences and the alternatives available. The drafting of an EIS includes public party, outside party, and other federal agency input concerning its preparation. These groups subsequently comment on the draft EIS.

text: An EIS is required to describe the environmental impacts of the proposed action, any adverse environmental impacts that cannot be avoided should the proposal be implemented, the reasonable alternatives to the proposed action, the relationship between local short-term uses of man's environment along with the maintenance and enhancement of long-term productivity, and any irreversible and irretrievable commitments of resources that would be involved in the proposed action.[14]

text: An agency may undertake the drafting of an EIS without the initial drafting of the EA. This may happen if the agency believes that the action will have a significant impact on the human or natural environment or if the action is considered an environmentally controversial issue.

text: The responsible decision-maker is required to review the final EIS before reaching a final decision regarding the course of action to be taken. The decision-maker must weigh the potential environmental impacts along with other pertinent considerations in reaching the final decision. A record of decision (ROD) is issued which record the agency's final decision.[15]

text: Council on Environmental Quality[edit]

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text: The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) was modeled after the Council of Economic Advisers, a group of advisers to the President, created by the Employment Act of 1946. Shortly after NEPA was signed into law, President Richard Nixon expanded the CEQ's mandate by executive order. He directed the CEQ to issue guidelines for the proper preparation of an EIS and to assemble and coordinate federal programs related to environmental quality. The Council was placed within the Executive Office of the President of the United States and is composed of three President-appointed members, which are subsequently confirmed by the Senate.

text: The CEQ has played a key part in the development of the EIS process. Its initial guidelines were issued in 1971, and required each federal department and agency to adopt its own guidelines consistent those established by CEQ. These guidelines did not carry the status of formal agency regulations, but were often held in the court of law as such. Eventually President Jimmy Carter authorized an executive order to adopt regulations rather than simple guidelines on EIS preparation. However, the CEQ had no authority to enforce its regulations.

text: The CEQ regulations begin by calling for agencies to integrate NEPA requirements with other planning requirements as soon as possible. This ensures that all decisions are reflective of environmental values, avoids potential delays, and eliminates potential future conflicts. NEPA's action-forcing provision, Section 102(2)(C), stipulates that all federal agencies shall "include in every recommendation or report on proposals for legislation and other major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment, a detailed statement by the responsible official ... on the environmental impact of the proposed action", with specification of the details required for the EIS.[16]

text: The CEQ has taken measures within the past several years to prepare advisory documentation explaining the general structure of NEPA and the nature of cumulative impacts, among other advisories. The CEQ maintains a Citizen's Guide to NEPA website.[17]

text: National Environmental Policy Act and environmental justice[edit]

text: The National Environmental Policy Act promotes environmental justice by requiring federal agencies to include minority and low-income populations in their NEPA-mandated environmental analyses. [18] Executive Order #12898 requires federal agencies that are complying with NEPA to consider environmental effects on human health, and economic and social effects, specifically within minority and low-income populations, which are disproportionately impacted by environmental detriment. [19] [20] Proposed federal actions must address "significant and adverse environmental effects" on minority and low-income populations. [19]

text: Recent developments[edit]

text: In January 2015, Republican Senator Rob Portman, introduced the "Federal Permitting Improvement Act of 2015". The bill would establish several requirements and procedures designed to expedite the completion of NEPA-related reviews, including the creation of a "Federal Permitting Improvement Council".[21]