'Classic' Detective Stories you have enjoyed.

[amateur51]

Yes, it's the Carmichael/Houston voices that I "hear" when I read the novels (reading Clouds of Witness for the nth time at the moment). But I also liked the Petherbridge versions when they were shown and I'd like to see how they compare with my memory of them.

Beautiful casting - loads of epis on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQcGQYzvPUU

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Beautiful casting - loads of epis on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQcGQYzvPUU

[Nick Armstrong]

Beautiful casting - loads of epis on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQcGQYzvPUU

The Carmichael 'Wimseys' are all in a box-set which has been on my Amazon wish-list for ages but family have swerved the £40+ price tag

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lord-Peter-Wimsey-Collection-DVD/dp/B002EY99OI/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=OD4FTFI45L6H&coliid=IZQ5KFTG6HEMW

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes, it's the Carmichael/Houston voices that I "hear" when I read the novels (reading Clouds of Witness for the nth time at the moment).

It's 'Nine Tailors' I've re-read, especially at this time of year - the snowy Norfolk atmos. quite intoxicating I find. I remember one New Year snowed in up on the coast near Cley, reading 'Nine Tailors' till the early hours and motoring through a bottle of single malt Very good dramatisation in that series

[mangerton]

It's 'Nine Tailors' I've re-read, especially at this time of year - the snowy Norfolk atmos. quite intoxicating I find. I remember one New Year snowed in up on the coast near Cley, reading 'Nine Tailors' till the early hours and motoring through a bottle of single malt Very good dramatisation in that series

Yes, that ranks first in my list of favourite whodunnits, and would be in the (very) shortlist for my Desert Island Disc book.

[antongould]

It's 'Nine Tailors' I've re-read, especially at this time of year - the snowy Norfolk atmos. quite intoxicating I find. I remember one New Year snowed in up on the coast near Cley, reading 'Nine Tailors' till the early hours and motoring through a bottle of single malt Very good dramatisation in that series

Very scary M'Learned - every year I read the first chapters of the Nine Tailors on Christmas Eve and finish it in the New Year - wonderful.......

[Nick Armstrong]

Very scary M'Learned - every year I read the first chapters of the Nine Tailors on Christmas Eve and finish it in the New Year - wonderful.......

Crumbs! Every year!

I told myself after that snowy read that I ought to.. Only managed it a couple of times since.

Crackin' stuff ain't it, Bunter, what?

[mercia]

the Carmichael/Houston voices

I like the Carmichael/Jones combination in the radio adaptations


talking of radio, Crispin's "Frequent Hearses" is currently being read on 4Extra by James Wilby

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00smb87/episodes/guide

[antongould]

I like the Carmichael/Jones combination in the radio adaptations


talking of radio, Crispin's "Frequent Hearses" is currently being read on 4Extra by James Wilby
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00smb87/episodes/guide

Yes listened on iplayer last night - surprisingly he does all the voices......

[mercia]

anybody been able to catch any of the daytime TV Father Browns ??

I was wondering how well they compared to the original stories [not having read them] - are they altered beyond recognition ?

the Cotswold village has a worse murder rate than St Mary Mead

[vinteuil]

altered beyond recognition ?

... is exactly it.

I have enjoyed these telly episodes, but they bear the slenderest connection to the original Fr: Brown stories (tho' using the story titles). They also have hardly any of the original stories' concerns with matters of faith, evil, redemption etc. They're a pleasant bit of sunny nostalgia alla 'Poirot'. Nice, but in the end ... meh...

The original stories well worth reading!

[mercia]

I've ordered the Complete Father Brown for £2.12

should I mug-up on the basic tenets of the Catholic faith to fully appreciate them, do you think ?

[and can that be done quickly ?]

[Anna]

I've ordered the Complete Father Brown for £2.12
should I mug-up on the basic tenets of the Catholic faith to fully appreciate them, do you think ?
[and can that be done quickly ?]

mercia, I've watched two on them via iplayer. I thought they were enjoyable light tosh (but I did like Mark Williams as Fr. Brown) As I've never read the originals I may also invest a couple of pounds (if I can find them as cheaply as you have done) and read them.
As for mugging up on basic tenets of Catholicism, I'm sure your Parish Priest would welcome you!
Edit: I see Amazon have a complete Fr. Brown for £1.99 inc P&P so I might as well buy it

[Ferretfancy]

I haven't read the Father Brown stories since my teens, but I remember that at the time I thought the moral and religious aspect rather off putting, as I liked a nice tight plot and a bit of derring do, which is rather absent from these tales.

I will try to watch an episode on TV, where I gather any moral ambiguities have been removed. I did catch part of one the other day in my dentist's waiting room, but it was silent with subtitles, including things like " CAR HORN SOUND - Ah! here's the bishop" Critical judgement is difficult under these circumstances !

[mercia]

Radio 4extra has just done a re-run of Inspector Wilfred Dover (Joyce Porter) dramatisations - I was wondering if anyone had read the books ?

in the voice of Kenneth Cranham at least I found him an amusing character, obnoxious, lazy, uncouth, always eating, always taking the credit, tight-fisted, would rather be in bed than solving crime, - each episode began and ended with his sergeant typing out a request for transfer away from Dover

just wondered if the books were funny