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Father Brown

4:20 pm - 5:20 pm Wednesday, November 18

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Season 5 · Episode 1

Canon Fox announces that the Duke of Frome will be staying with Lady Felicia at Montague and attending a full Christmas Mass at St Mary's. Father Brown and Mrs McCarthy set about making the arrangements, but when the donkey goes missing, laryngitis hits the choir and a tramp is found sleeping in the confessional box, it looks like Fox's plans are set to be thwarted. Lady Felicia welcomes her cousin the Duke, his wife and baby to the house, but later a nursemaid discovers that the infant is missing from his cot beside a heavily sleeping Nanny Langton. Mark Williams stars

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  • Sorcha Cusack — Actor as Mrs McCarthy
  • Roger May — Actor as Canon Damian Fox
  • Mark Williams — Actor as Father Brown
  • Nancy Carroll — Actor as Lady Felicia
  • Raymond Coulthard — Actor as John Langton
  • Zannah Hodson — Actor as Diana Langton
  • Harriet Layhe — Actor as Amy Jones
  • Isla Blair — Actor as Nanny Langton
  • Elliott Jordan — Actor as George Parkin
  • Colin Deaney — Actor as Hornby
  • Dean Andrews — Actor as Michael Negal
  • Christos Lawton — Actor as Basil Urquhart
  • Jack Deam — Actor as Insp Mallory
  • John Burton — Actor as Sgt Goodfellow
  • Maddy Hill — Actor as Hannah Parkin
  • Mary Keegan — Actor as Matron
  • Jude Tindall — Writer
  • Caroline Slater — Producer
  • Paul Gibson — Director
  • Will Trotter — Executive producer

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