Father Brown remains a beloved staple of daytime TV, with cast members Mark Williams and John Burton suggesting the series has secured longevity and maintained its popularity due to its imaginative storytelling and its comforting formulaic structure.
Based on the Father Brown short stories by GK Chesterton, the quaint crime drama follows Harry Potter actor Williams as the titular crime-solving Roman Catholic priest, on hand to restore calm and tranquility to a bucolic town in the Cotswolds, which happens to have an alarmingly high murder rate.
“What the BBC has provided is a sense of continuity and belonging and warmth, which the radio has been doing for nearly 100 years of course, and that’s a very nice place to be for a show like this that’s seen in 230 territories around the world,” Williams told RadioTimes.com.