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#1 David Lawson

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Posted 17 January 2014 - 21:46

Today's episode of the Father Brown series on BBC1 was set around Shelsley Walsh and showed quite a range of cars in action and in the paddock/start area. The programme set in the 1950s is a bit fluffy with an obvious storyline but nicely filmed and it is fun car spotting. For those in the UK it is available on iPlayer.

 

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#2 Allan Lupton

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Posted 18 January 2014 - 09:04

It seems there is little connection between G.K.Chesterton's Father Brown stories (1911-1936 and the series of which that was the last. Presumably that's the excuse for a mind-numbingly poor plot which hinged, as one rather expected it would, on a more or less impossible contrived crash.

From the use of a Wolseley 4/44 as a police car, the spin-off seemed to be set post-1953 but the actor did not look old enough to have been a priest 42 years before. The clothes and hairstyles seemed more pre-war than mid-1950s but what's 20 years error to the young people who make the programmes?
Good supporting part for Brewster's P type Lea-Francis though. biggrin.gif