The Vipers Tongue
father brown

Walter Penmark is found burnt to death in a locked room after receiving a warning, in latin, IGNIS meaning fire. Peggy Langdon is also murdered by a block of ice after receiving a warning, GRANDO meaning Hail. Mrs McCarthy receives a warning, FAMES meaning starvation. Father Brown and Sid investigate to save Mrs McCarthy's life, that Walter Penmark's wife had committed suicide and had been the subject of domestic violence, gossip, and advice from Mrs McCarthy to give up her lover, a local fireman. Her sister, Ruby Nellins, had returned from America for her funeral and stayed on in Kembleford to run a business. A business an entrepreneur was trying to buy along with Peggy Langdon's home and properties owned by Walter Penmark.

Duration: 44 minutes and 21 seconds

Episode Number: 192

About Father Brown:

Based on the short stories by G K Chesterton, Father Brown follows the kindly cleric as he solves crimes in his community.

It is a quintessentially English world: drawing rooms in large country houses, miles of countryside, village halls and secret gardens, as well as country fairs, railway stations and rural parish churches.

Each episode sees the enigmatic priest investigate a crime in his own particular way, using intuition and psychology.

Father Brown discovers the truth of a crime by looking into the truth of the soul - the passions, dark secrets, hidden desires.

Many years spent hearing his parishioners' confessions have given him an uncanny insight into the origins of evil and the workings of the criminal mind.

But the stories are not concerned with judgement - Father Brown is more interested in saving souls than in bringing the guilty to justice.


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Thu, Apr 9 8:00 P.M. The Last Supper     NH Explore (11.2)
Fri, Apr 10 12:00 A.M. The Last Supper     NH Explore (11.2)
Fri, Apr 10 12:54 P.M. The Last Supper     NH Explore (11.2)
Sat, Apr 11 8:00 P.M. The Father, The Son     NHPBS (11.1)
Wed, Apr 15 4:30 P.M. The Father, The Son     NHPBS (11.1)
Thu, Apr 16 8:00 P.M. The Father, The Son     NH Explore (11.2)
Fri, Apr 17 12:00 A.M. The Father, The Son     NH Explore (11.2)
Fri, Apr 17 12:55 P.M. The Father, The Son     NH Explore (11.2)
Sat, Apr 18 8:00 P.M. The Quill of Osric     NHPBS (11.1)
Wed, Apr 22 4:00 P.M. The Quill of Osric     NHPBS (11.1)
Thu, Apr 23 8:00 P.M. The Quill of Osric     NH Explore (11.2)
Fri, Apr 24 12:00 A.M. The Quill of Osric     NH Explore (11.2)
Fri, Apr 24 12:57 P.M. The Quill of Osric     NH Explore (11.2)
Sat, Apr 25 8:00 P.M. The Word of the Condemned     NHPBS (11.1)
Wed, Apr 29 4:00 P.M. The Word of the Condemned     NHPBS (11.1)
Thu, Apr 30 8:00 P.M. The Word of the Condemned     NH Explore (11.2)


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