Father Brown.

London, UK BBC Worldwide, 2001. Audio Cassette Two Audio Cassette Tapes in Excellent [Near Fine] condition (they have been played, so they are no longer "new", but still play fine), showing only the mildest rubbing to the plastic. These are housed in a plastic case that has seen better days. At this point serves only to protect the paper and cassettes [Fair at best]. All colorful liner notes are present and in Excellent condition [Fine]. Overall, Very Good. BBC Radio Collection. This recording was previously issued in 1991. Audio Book: Cassette Tapes. Four BBC Full-Cast Dramatizations (The Blue Cross, The Queer Feet, The Eye of Apollo, and The Absence of Mr. Glass. The first three were produced in 1984; Mr. Glass was produced in 1987. Andrew Sachs stars as Father Brown and Olivier Pierre as Flambeau. Dramatised by John Scotney and Directed by Alec Reid. Running Time: 105 Minutes. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (1874 – 1936) better known as G.K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown. Chesterton early showed a great interest in and talent for art. He had planned to become an artist and his writing shows a vision that clothed abstract ideas in concrete and memorable images. Even his fiction contained carefully concealed parables. Father Brown is perpetually correcting the incorrect vision of the bewildered folks at the scene of the crime and wandering off at the end with the criminal to exercise his priestly role of recognition and repentance. For example, in the story "The Flying Stars", Father Brown entreats the character Flambeau to give up his life of crime: "There is still youth and honour and humour in you; don't fancy they will last in that trade. Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down. The kind man drinks and turns cruel; the frank man kills and lies about it. Many a man I've known started like you to be an honest outlaw, a merry robber of the rich, and ended stamped into slime."