March 10, 2022 • 20 mins
My guests are executive producer Will Trotter and Lorna Watson who plays Sister Boniface a 10-part crime series set in 1960s’ rural England. It follows the adventures of moped-riding Sister Boniface of St Vincent’s Convent, who was first seen in the role in the hit BBC1
sleuthing series Father Brown alongside Mark Williams as the crime-solving priest.
Alongside Watson, the show stars Max Brown (Downton Abbey), Jerry Iwu (Sex Education), Miranda Raison (MI-5), and Ami Metcalf (Upstairs Downstairs).
The cast also includes Belinda Lang (Inspector Alleyn Mysteries), Virginia Fiol (EastEnders), Ivan Kaye (The Coroner), Sarah Crowden (Grantchester), and David Sterne (Detectorists).
Created by Father Brown writer Jude Tindall, the show follows the sleuthing nun in rural 1960s England as she uses the latest techniques for tracking down killers.
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sleuthing series Father Brown alongside Mark Williams as the crime-solving priest.
Alongside Watson, the show stars Max Brown (Downton Abbey), Jerry Iwu (Sex Education), Miranda Raison (MI-5), and Ami Metcalf (Upstairs Downstairs).
The cast also includes Belinda Lang (Inspector Alleyn Mysteries), Virginia Fiol (EastEnders), Ivan Kaye (The Coroner), Sarah Crowden (Grantchester), and David Sterne (Detectorists).
Created by Father Brown writer Jude Tindall, the show follows the sleuthing nun in rural 1960s England as she uses the latest techniques for tracking down killers.
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(00:27):
Everyone, Welcome to this edition streamon. I'm Jim Williams, your host,
and today we're going to talk abouta show that actually was almost a
decade in the making. Here's whatI mean by that. If you're a
fan of Father Brown and we allare here, whether we watch it on
the brick box, which is howI consume it, many of you around
(00:48):
the world see it on BBC.In the first year Father Brown, they
introduced you to a young nun whoin her own right enjoyed solving crimes,
and that was, of course,Sister Boniface. Now, Sister Boniface is
from the Saint Vincent's Convent and aswe said before, she started that role
with Mark Williams who plays of course, Father Brown back in the first series.
(01:12):
Now we fast forward to the nineteensixties in rural England and Sister Boniface
is out there helping solve crimes.Now, the beauty of the show,
it's like the beauty of a FatherBrown, and that is we get a
fun story. Yes it's a murder, but it's always solved within that one
(01:34):
hour time frame and it's always donecleverly, well written and in this case
with regards to Sister Boniface, youget to see a beautiful little village.
It's a very honestly, it's justa very nice show the entire family can
enjoy. So my guest today,our executive producer Will trot Her and Laura
(01:56):
Watson, who plays Sister Boniface.I gotta say, guys, this is
a very entertaining show and it reallyis in the mode of father around.
Yeah. Ye, I wasn't sureif Will was going to talk then,
m Yeah. I mean, Ithink that's one of the lovely things about
it that you could sit down asa family and and and enjoy it.
(02:16):
It's a bit of warm show asit's got, you know. I mean,
yes, there's a lot of youknow, murder in there, but
but you know, there's a there'sa lot of warm for lots of love
in the show. And I thinkand it's funny and you know, I
hope you know, and I thinkand some great characters in there as well.
You know, it's it's it feelslike, um, there's you know,
(02:40):
there's a lot of interesting characters andtheir relationships with each other. So
yeah, I think it's um itis something that you could sit down and
watch as a as a family,and there aren't loads of those shows out
there. So yeah, no,not really no, Unfortunately, it's it's
(03:00):
funny. The one of the thingsI think is about it, as you
say, you know, oh,there's murdered there, but it's not gruesome.
You know, it's hammible in afeel like Father in Summer and some
of the others that have been aroundfor a long time. Yes, it's
(03:22):
murder, but it's not gruesome.Yeah. I think it's more it's sort
of less about the actual murders andmore about how we solve them. You
know. It's the the friends aclementof the show is it's kind of unique
DNA really and I think, youknow, it's um it's I think being
(03:46):
set in the nineteen sixties and weyou know, given the sort of technological
constraints of the time, it's justthat added extra element you know that I
think makes the show richer. Actually, you know that we're finding out how
forensic to be some you know,a crime would be solved, but in
that period, Um, yeah,it feels like it feels quite unique and
(04:09):
genuinely quite interesting. I didn't knowabout nineteen sixties forensics until I started playing
Boniface. So you know, Ihope that it's there's a bit of puzzle
solving in there, and as Isaid, that's these lovely, rich relationships
that you know, I hope,you know, we really enjoyed making this
show. And I think, yeah, I just hope that translates, yeah,
(04:32):
because well, I think it's quiteunique about it. Launa's just mentioned
a few for little things, butjust a circle back on your family show
content. Everyone, when I wasa kid at age ten or eleven,
you wanted a chemistry set. Youjust wanted a chemistry another to make,
to make a stink bomb, orto go and sort of play or do
(04:53):
something or make it feel like you'reintelligent, you know. So there's something
about the actual Launa does itself brilliant. There's something childlike about her quality of
you know, performance that feels likeyou're it's relatable to all these members of
the family, you know, notjust you, but kids sort of connect
(05:15):
with it. So I think it'sa unique show in that sense, because
of course, with all these puzzlestuff and its procedurals, so it's so
you can see the cops doing theirtheir job. But because it's nineteen sixties,
and nobody really knew what was goingon. If you're a family who
don't really know the detail, it'sgreat watching the Sister Bona first unpickhole this
stuff in front of you, mayexplain it to you. So it's obviously
(05:36):
being taught, but in a verysort of you know, beautiful way,
in a very sort of you know, you know, entertaining way. Yeah,
it's organic, and so you gotthat going for you. How did
the concept of Sister Bauna think homeabout? Well, if I can answer
that, in the first instance,we did Father Brown many years ago,
(05:57):
the first series, and wonderful jewTendall was one of our great writers who's
the lead writers on this and creator. She created Launa's character a Sister Bonifas
in an episode which she wrote wherethree nuns get murdered in a convent.
We love the episode so much andwe are absolutely a dull Launa's performers that
we're racking our brains about how wecan bring her back, and particularly is
(06:18):
quite specific a company, you know, and then we thought, well,
you know what, why don't wejust hold this character in the bains because
Father Brown might only run for twoor three series, and you know,
we're now we can we can youknow, bring bring her character in and
you know, moving on and makeit a different show. Well ten into
our tenth series, The Father aboutnow, So I mean, that's just
(06:40):
been an astonishing, an incredible success, and we just couldn't leave Launa sitting
on the shelf for too long,so we start, she's going to get
kidnapped by somebody else. So Iso I sold this. We sold it.
We got together myself and Neil whoscriptures, and Jude, so let's
work this up. Let's and Isold it to BritBox, who love the
idea because they just bought all theFather Brown's back off Netflix and it's doing
(07:03):
so well for BritBox when it kicksoff. The idea of a companion piece
like Sister Boniface, which is differentand put its own unique brand, was
just too much for them to sortof turn down. So thank goodness because
it's been a great show and Launa'sclass act. So there you go over
to lawn. Yeah, I mean, well, I mean how it came
(07:27):
about for me was I did anepisode of series one of Father Brown and
then you know, as you do, put it all, put it to
you did the show, put itto bed and cracked on with my life,
and then got the most extraordinary phonecall, however, many years later,
saying, you're not going to believethis, but you know, sister
Boniface is they want to, youknow, give their own series, and
(07:51):
well it was just bonkers. Iwas just completely surprised, and but in
a you know, obviously in agreat way. I mean I couldn't wait,
and I think what's lovely? IsI thoroughly I mean, I so
enjoyed playing her the first time around, but to get to you really explore
a character that i'd already I alreadyloved, but in so much more detail
(08:11):
over ten episodes has just been areal treat. Actually, I've really enjoyed
it. It's funny sometimes. Iactually an episode of a Father Brown.
I'm a big Father Brown fan.So well, it's funny because it didn't
(08:33):
jarg in my head until you know, to you guys, brighten it up.
But yeah, you became a spinoff, and spinoffs are you know,
are part of television. It's agood yeah. I mean, I'd had
no idea that the character had resonatedso much, you know, it had
(08:54):
resonated with me. I mean,I absolutely loved I'd always you know,
wanted to play now and and alsoto play a character so actually intelligent,
because I don't normally get to playclever people. I don't know why,
but it's true. So actually toplay a real brain like hers has been
(09:16):
also just really interesting. But againI wasn't expecting it, so it was
It's just been a surprise, anamazing surprise, and it's a real adventure.
And we you know, I've laughedall summer. We had such a
great time shooting, and the castamazing, the crew were amazing. Will's
amazing, Everyone's amazing, and youknow, I just hope that people are
(09:39):
going to enjoy watching it as muchas you know, we enjoyed making it.
Yeah, well, Jim, goahead, Jue. We call.
We called. We're talking about intelligence. The characters. We call just a
bono of us ourselves between us Googlein a wimpole. That's good, that's
funny. You know, you havesuch great chemistry with the you know,
(10:05):
with the entire cast of it's justeach one of them bring a little something
to the party. Um, Ithink, sister bon face, how did
well when you're putting that together?How did that same. We've got a
really great group here with father Brown, how do how do you bring together
(10:26):
a new with sister Bonna face that. Frankly, in what I've seen,
it's seamless. I mean, it'sit's like these people have been working forever
and they just did you know,I just saw one chop. Yeah,
it's part of the creative process.Something obviously has to take most of the
(10:46):
credit for this because she created notonly Launa's character, but created the series.
But myself and Neiland we all sitdown together and we work out things,
and you know, the first threewe thought the two detectives might be
too much, but she fought forthat and she actually it works that you're
going through Jerry's character and when heFelix, when he turns up, you've
(11:09):
got the audience had then taken intothis kind of otherworldly place through his eyes.
So that's that's a clever technique.And then suddenly you see all So
he's new to the world. We'renew to the world the audience, but
the rest of them are all inthis slightly offbeat world and it'll happy living
there in this and so everything everyall surprises that he gets the audience are
(11:31):
getting so so that was a veryclever technique. And then on top of
that, we wanted to build,um, you know, around sister Bonifast.
We wanted to build her team,you know, her gang and that
gang because we wanted that to bedifferent from Father Brom. We wanted that
to be procedural, as opposed tothe nineteen fifties whether there wasn't really any
(11:52):
great CSI crime scene investigation that youknow, it was all about instinct and
confessions and so on. We wantedthat team to be good police people,
quirky, but good police people.And so that's that's where we came from
with that, and also that Iwanted to love interest and I wanted a
strong female character, and so wecreated the editor of Miranda's character, Ruth,
the editor of the local paper,and that that gave us another sort
(12:15):
of layer of of you know,will they won't the element to it,
so, you know, because it'sjust a Boniface herself. It's such a
unique, brilliant character. But shelives in another world. She lives in
a convent, so we needed theoutside world to work as well as the
inside world, you know, soshe comes out and in, in and
out but but so you had tosort of think of those things. That's
(12:37):
all part of that process. It'sjust say, because Jude's such a great
writer, you know, and youknow Learner from your standpoint, Uh,
was it someone in the nineteen sixties? I'm so sorry, Jim, I
didn't catch the question. I'm sosorry, not at all. We were
(13:01):
were saying it point. Was itfun to play a character in the nineteen
sixties because you get to go back, But it's not that for that.
Yeah, it's such a It wassuch a great idea to set it in
the sixties actually, because it's soyou know, it's quite a progressive decade
in many ways, but also mvisually very rich as well. I mean,
(13:26):
the costumes, the cars, thatjust you know, it was very
exciting actually to be on set aroundall of that, you know, but
also to be playing a character whoexcelled in her field, the field of
forensics, at a time in historywhen you know, women weren't necessarily seen
(13:48):
as career driven, you know,you know it. I think she's quite
a trailblazer in that respect. Andas you mentioned, Will was mentioning,
you know, Ruth the newspaper andWPC Peggy Button as well. We've got
and also other female characters that comeon board in episodes. You know,
we there's a lot of you knowwomen in the show who are you know,
(14:13):
striving and ambitious, and it feelslike, yes, there is there
is a sort of progressive feel tothe show. I think that's quite exciting.
Yeah, kind of like when youknow, the sixties. At the
early parts of the sixties, therewas this movement and by the end of
the sixties, you know, therewas they we are here, you pay
(14:37):
attention, And that's kind of likesomething that you might have seen in Madman
or you know those period pieces wherethe guys were you know, jerks the
whole way through, but they backlater in the sixties, so you kind
of as the art moves forward andnot to get here. But anyways,
(15:00):
I just thought the sixties were theperfect era for this pretty yeah. And
also I suppose also that you know, as we're a sister show to Father
Brown, that he just gives itthat extra difference, you know, sixties
and there's a you know, aprogression there as well, which is quite
(15:22):
nice. Although Father Brown is stillin the area, very much in the
area, Sister benifast because of herunique skills, her forensic skills, her
super brain. Um, she's atthe forefront, the cutting edge of the
latest if you like technology in science, and so therefore that that was happening
(15:43):
in the sixties. It wasn't untilthe end of the sixties till DNA and
all that kind of stuff really exploded. But but but at this time that
works perfectly for her characters because shecan't because she's she's, as she says,
she progressive. If she's advanced,she's ahead of the game, you
know Cambridge, right, and someonewho embraces it as opposed to runs away
(16:06):
from. Yeah. Yeah, andalso someone and also I will say,
you know, someone who's needed bythe police for her skills. She's that
good. Where would their clean upbreak would not be what it is if
it wasn't for her and her laboratory. I mean, and you know whereas
father Brown, of course, youknow, he's when the police see him
(16:29):
arrives as you know, raising them, rolling their eyes and everything. But
she's actually welcomed in. I mean, they need her. So yeah,
it's a great it's a great Um, it's a great dynamic because it's so
it's just so weird that a nunwould be working with the police. Special
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Everyone, Welcome to this edition streamon. I'm Jim Williams, your host,
and today we're going to talk abouta show that actually was almost a
decade in the making. Here's whatI mean by that. If you're a
fan of Father Brown and we allare here, whether we watch it on
the brick box, which is howI consume it, many of you around
(00:48):
the world see it on BBC.In the first year Father Brown, they
introduced you to a young nun whoin her own right enjoyed solving crimes,
and that was, of course,Sister Boniface. Now, Sister Boniface is
from the Saint Vincent's Convent and aswe said before, she started that role
with Mark Williams who plays of course, Father Brown back in the first series.
(01:12):
Now we fast forward to the nineteensixties in rural England and Sister Boniface
is out there helping solve crimes.Now, the beauty of the show,
it's like the beauty of a FatherBrown, and that is we get a
fun story. Yes it's a murder, but it's always solved within that one
(01:34):
hour time frame and it's always donecleverly, well written and in this case
with regards to Sister Boniface, youget to see a beautiful little village.
It's a very honestly, it's justa very nice show the entire family can
enjoy. So my guest today,our executive producer Will trot Her and Laura
(01:56):
Watson, who plays Sister Boniface.I gotta say, guys, this is
a very entertaining show and it reallyis in the mode of father around.
Yeah. Ye, I wasn't sureif Will was going to talk then,
m Yeah. I mean, Ithink that's one of the lovely things about
it that you could sit down asa family and and and enjoy it.
(02:16):
It's a bit of warm show asit's got, you know. I mean,
yes, there's a lot of youknow, murder in there, but
but you know, there's a there'sa lot of warm for lots of love
in the show. And I thinkand it's funny and you know, I
hope you know, and I thinkand some great characters in there as well.
You know, it's it's it feelslike, um, there's you know,
(02:40):
there's a lot of interesting characters andtheir relationships with each other. So
yeah, I think it's um itis something that you could sit down and
watch as a as a family,and there aren't loads of those shows out
there. So yeah, no,not really no, Unfortunately, it's it's
(03:00):
funny. The one of the thingsI think is about it, as you
say, you know, oh,there's murdered there, but it's not gruesome.
You know, it's hammible in afeel like Father in Summer and some
of the others that have been aroundfor a long time. Yes, it's
(03:22):
murder, but it's not gruesome.Yeah. I think it's more it's sort
of less about the actual murders andmore about how we solve them. You
know. It's the the friends aclementof the show is it's kind of unique
DNA really and I think, youknow, it's um it's I think being
(03:46):
set in the nineteen sixties and weyou know, given the sort of technological
constraints of the time, it's justthat added extra element you know that I
think makes the show richer. Actually, you know that we're finding out how
forensic to be some you know,a crime would be solved, but in
that period, Um, yeah,it feels like it feels quite unique and
(04:09):
genuinely quite interesting. I didn't knowabout nineteen sixties forensics until I started playing
Boniface. So you know, Ihope that it's there's a bit of puzzle
solving in there, and as Isaid, that's these lovely, rich relationships
that you know, I hope,you know, we really enjoyed making this
show. And I think, yeah, I just hope that translates, yeah,
(04:32):
because well, I think it's quiteunique about it. Launa's just mentioned
a few for little things, butjust a circle back on your family show
content. Everyone, when I wasa kid at age ten or eleven,
you wanted a chemistry set. Youjust wanted a chemistry another to make,
to make a stink bomb, orto go and sort of play or do
(04:53):
something or make it feel like you'reintelligent, you know. So there's something
about the actual Launa does itself brilliant. There's something childlike about her quality of
you know, performance that feels likeyou're it's relatable to all these members of
the family, you know, notjust you, but kids sort of connect
(05:15):
with it. So I think it'sa unique show in that sense, because
of course, with all these puzzlestuff and its procedurals, so it's so
you can see the cops doing theirtheir job. But because it's nineteen sixties,
and nobody really knew what was goingon. If you're a family who
don't really know the detail, it'sgreat watching the Sister Bona first unpickhole this
stuff in front of you, mayexplain it to you. So it's obviously
(05:36):
being taught, but in a verysort of you know, beautiful way,
in a very sort of you know, you know, entertaining way. Yeah,
it's organic, and so you gotthat going for you. How did
the concept of Sister Bauna think homeabout? Well, if I can answer
that, in the first instance,we did Father Brown many years ago,
(05:57):
the first series, and wonderful jewTendall was one of our great writers who's
the lead writers on this and creator. She created Launa's character a Sister Bonifas
in an episode which she wrote wherethree nuns get murdered in a convent.
We love the episode so much andwe are absolutely a dull Launa's performers that
we're racking our brains about how wecan bring her back, and particularly is
(06:18):
quite specific a company, you know, and then we thought, well,
you know what, why don't wejust hold this character in the bains because
Father Brown might only run for twoor three series, and you know,
we're now we can we can youknow, bring bring her character in and
you know, moving on and makeit a different show. Well ten into
our tenth series, The Father aboutnow, So I mean, that's just
(06:40):
been an astonishing, an incredible success, and we just couldn't leave Launa sitting
on the shelf for too long,so we start, she's going to get
kidnapped by somebody else. So Iso I sold this. We sold it.
We got together myself and Neil whoscriptures, and Jude, so let's
work this up. Let's and Isold it to BritBox, who love the
idea because they just bought all theFather Brown's back off Netflix and it's doing
(07:03):
so well for BritBox when it kicksoff. The idea of a companion piece
like Sister Boniface, which is differentand put its own unique brand, was
just too much for them to sortof turn down. So thank goodness because
it's been a great show and Launa'sclass act. So there you go over
to lawn. Yeah, I mean, well, I mean how it came
(07:27):
about for me was I did anepisode of series one of Father Brown and
then you know, as you do, put it all, put it to
you did the show, put itto bed and cracked on with my life,
and then got the most extraordinary phonecall, however, many years later,
saying, you're not going to believethis, but you know, sister
Boniface is they want to, youknow, give their own series, and
(07:51):
well it was just bonkers. Iwas just completely surprised, and but in
a you know, obviously in agreat way. I mean I couldn't wait,
and I think what's lovely? IsI thoroughly I mean, I so
enjoyed playing her the first time around, but to get to you really explore
a character that i'd already I alreadyloved, but in so much more detail
(08:11):
over ten episodes has just been areal treat. Actually, I've really enjoyed
it. It's funny sometimes. Iactually an episode of a Father Brown.
I'm a big Father Brown fan.So well, it's funny because it didn't
(08:33):
jarg in my head until you know, to you guys, brighten it up.
But yeah, you became a spinoff, and spinoffs are you know,
are part of television. It's agood yeah. I mean, I'd had
no idea that the character had resonatedso much, you know, it had
(08:54):
resonated with me. I mean,I absolutely loved I'd always you know,
wanted to play now and and alsoto play a character so actually intelligent,
because I don't normally get to playclever people. I don't know why,
but it's true. So actually toplay a real brain like hers has been
(09:16):
also just really interesting. But againI wasn't expecting it, so it was
It's just been a surprise, anamazing surprise, and it's a real adventure.
And we you know, I've laughedall summer. We had such a
great time shooting, and the castamazing, the crew were amazing. Will's
amazing, Everyone's amazing, and youknow, I just hope that people are
(09:39):
going to enjoy watching it as muchas you know, we enjoyed making it.
Yeah, well, Jim, goahead, Jue. We call.
We called. We're talking about intelligence. The characters. We call just a
bono of us ourselves between us Googlein a wimpole. That's good, that's
funny. You know, you havesuch great chemistry with the you know,
(10:05):
with the entire cast of it's justeach one of them bring a little something
to the party. Um, Ithink, sister bon face, how did
well when you're putting that together?How did that same. We've got a
really great group here with father Brown, how do how do you bring together
(10:26):
a new with sister Bonna face that. Frankly, in what I've seen,
it's seamless. I mean, it'sit's like these people have been working forever
and they just did you know,I just saw one chop. Yeah,
it's part of the creative process.Something obviously has to take most of the
(10:46):
credit for this because she created notonly Launa's character, but created the series.
But myself and Neiland we all sitdown together and we work out things,
and you know, the first threewe thought the two detectives might be
too much, but she fought forthat and she actually it works that you're
going through Jerry's character and when heFelix, when he turns up, you've
(11:09):
got the audience had then taken intothis kind of otherworldly place through his eyes.
So that's that's a clever technique.And then suddenly you see all So
he's new to the world. We'renew to the world the audience, but
the rest of them are all inthis slightly offbeat world and it'll happy living
there in this and so everything everyall surprises that he gets the audience are
(11:31):
getting so so that was a veryclever technique. And then on top of
that, we wanted to build,um, you know, around sister Bonifast.
We wanted to build her team,you know, her gang and that
gang because we wanted that to bedifferent from Father Brom. We wanted that
to be procedural, as opposed tothe nineteen fifties whether there wasn't really any
(11:52):
great CSI crime scene investigation that youknow, it was all about instinct and
confessions and so on. We wantedthat team to be good police people,
quirky, but good police people.And so that's that's where we came from
with that, and also that Iwanted to love interest and I wanted a
strong female character, and so wecreated the editor of Miranda's character, Ruth,
the editor of the local paper,and that that gave us another sort
(12:15):
of layer of of you know,will they won't the element to it,
so, you know, because it'sjust a Boniface herself. It's such a
unique, brilliant character. But shelives in another world. She lives in
a convent, so we needed theoutside world to work as well as the
inside world, you know, soshe comes out and in, in and
out but but so you had tosort of think of those things. That's
(12:37):
all part of that process. It'sjust say, because Jude's such a great
writer, you know, and youknow Learner from your standpoint, Uh,
was it someone in the nineteen sixties? I'm so sorry, Jim, I
didn't catch the question. I'm sosorry, not at all. We were
(13:01):
were saying it point. Was itfun to play a character in the nineteen
sixties because you get to go back, But it's not that for that.
Yeah, it's such a It wassuch a great idea to set it in
the sixties actually, because it's soyou know, it's quite a progressive decade
in many ways, but also mvisually very rich as well. I mean,
(13:26):
the costumes, the cars, thatjust you know, it was very
exciting actually to be on set aroundall of that, you know, but
also to be playing a character whoexcelled in her field, the field of
forensics, at a time in historywhen you know, women weren't necessarily seen
(13:48):
as career driven, you know,you know it. I think she's quite
a trailblazer in that respect. Andas you mentioned, Will was mentioning,
you know, Ruth the newspaper andWPC Peggy Button as well. We've got
and also other female characters that comeon board in episodes. You know,
we there's a lot of you knowwomen in the show who are you know,
(14:13):
striving and ambitious, and it feelslike, yes, there is there
is a sort of progressive feel tothe show. I think that's quite exciting.
Yeah, kind of like when youknow, the sixties. At the
early parts of the sixties, therewas this movement and by the end of
the sixties, you know, therewas they we are here, you pay
(14:37):
attention, And that's kind of likesomething that you might have seen in Madman
or you know those period pieces wherethe guys were you know, jerks the
whole way through, but they backlater in the sixties, so you kind
of as the art moves forward andnot to get here. But anyways,
(15:00):
I just thought the sixties were theperfect era for this pretty yeah. And
also I suppose also that you know, as we're a sister show to Father
Brown, that he just gives itthat extra difference, you know, sixties
and there's a you know, aprogression there as well, which is quite
(15:22):
nice. Although Father Brown is stillin the area, very much in the
area, Sister benifast because of herunique skills, her forensic skills, her
super brain. Um, she's atthe forefront, the cutting edge of the
latest if you like technology in science, and so therefore that that was happening
(15:43):
in the sixties. It wasn't untilthe end of the sixties till DNA and
all that kind of stuff really exploded. But but but at this time that
works perfectly for her characters because shecan't because she's she's, as she says,
she progressive. If she's advanced,she's ahead of the game, you
know Cambridge, right, and someonewho embraces it as opposed to runs away
(16:06):
from. Yeah. Yeah, andalso someone and also I will say,
you know, someone who's needed bythe police for her skills. She's that
good. Where would their clean upbreak would not be what it is if
it wasn't for her and her laboratory. I mean, and you know whereas
father Brown, of course, youknow, he's when the police see him
(16:29):
arrives as you know, raising them, rolling their eyes and everything. But
she's actually welcomed in. I mean, they need her. So yeah,
it's a great it's a great Um, it's a great dynamic because it's so
it's just so weird that a nunwould be working with the police. Special
thanks to Wild Trotter and of courseLaura Watson, who plays Sister Bona Face
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