<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Website </Td> </Tr> <P> Father Brown is a British television period drama which began airing on BBC One on 14 January 2013 . It features Mark Williams as the eponymous crime - solving Roman Catholic priest . The series is loosely based on short stories by G.K. Chesterton of the same name . </P> <P> The series is set during the early 1950s, in the fictional Cotswold village of Kembleford, where Father Brown, priest at St Mary's Catholic Church, solves murder cases . A bumbling police inspector, who often arrests the wrong suspect, gets annoyed by Father Brown's success . </P> <P> Father Brown uses the distinctive skills of his close friends as well as his own wits to solve cases, occasionally to the neglect of his more mundane parish duties . His vocation as a priest often gives him an insight to the truth, so that justice (but occasionally, not the letter of the law) may be served . His commitment to obeying the Seal of the Confessional often presents unique circumstances . The time period is when Britain was still struggling with deprivation and shortages in the aftermath of the hardships of the Second World War . The country still applies the death penalty as a sentence for capital crimes such as murder . Father Brown opposes capital punishment . </P>

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