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Father Fairfax is sent to bury village priest, Father Lacy - but rumours surround is accidental death. Read by Michael Maloney.

Father Fairfax, a newly ordained priest has been sent by the Bishop of Exeter to the village of Addicott St George to bury Father Lacy who has recently died.

But a mysterious figure appears at the funeral casting doubt on the accidental nature of the priest’s death.

Robert Harris’s totally absorbing and truly surprising thriller takes a 'historical futuristic’ setting to comment on the present.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes abridged by Jeremy Osborne.

Read by Michael Maloney.

Producer: Karen Rose

A Sweet Talk production for ±«Óătv Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2020.

*** Author Robert Harris, the master of plotting is best known for his best-selling fiction; The Ghost Writer, An Officer and a Spy, Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel.

1 hour, 15 minutes

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Sun 23 Jun 2024 02:30

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