Andrew Sachs celebrities as the famous clerical sleuth in Series 1 of ‘The Dad Brown Stories’, initial broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Along with his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and ‘beaming but breathless geniality’, Dad Brown is one of fiction’s best-loved novice detectives. Brief and tatty, but with the intelligence and understanding to unravel the most wayward of legal minds, he offers entertained decades. In Series 1, the High Priest of detection becomes involved in seven intriguing situations that will tax actually his mental powers towards the limit. The shows are: The Blue Mix, The Queer Foot, THE ATTENTION of Apollo, The Invisible Man, The Honour of Israel Gow, The Hammer of God as well as the Sins of Prince Saradine. Dramatised by John Scotney and produced by Alec Reid.