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‘Father Brown’: S02.E06. “The Daughters of Jerusalem”

When Mrs Bunyon is killed after a row at a cake baking contest, evidence is gathered for Father Brown to unmask the murderer

Screen Capture: A scene from “Father Brown”

This Father Brown episode, The Daughters of Jerusalem, opens with a meeting of the WI. Father Roland Eager (James Rastall), filling in for Father Brown (Mark Williams), has a film documentary of his recent missionary work in Africa. Noting the title of the documentary, Educating the African Orphan, the Catholic Church’s approach to education is seriously questionable.

On the poster printed for the event, immediately after Father Eager’s documentary, there is a cookery talk scheduled. The cookery talk, oddly titled Going Gay without Meat, is presented by a Mrs Hunnisett. Before we get as far as the cookery talk, completely disrupting the event, someone swaps out Father Eager’s documentary for a pornographic film. This apparent pornographic film takes the phrase “a roll in the hay” a little too literally.

Screen Capture: Nancy Carroll as Lady Felicia Montague in “Father Brown”