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Paul Temple: The Complete Radio Collection: Volume One
- Author
- Francis Durbridge
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Publish Date
- 18 February 2016
- Run Time
- 11 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Three complete radio dramas featuring writer and amateur detective Paul Temple, plus bonus archive material.
When it comes to classic crime partnerships, Paul Temple and his wife Steve are the crème de la crème. Between 1938 and 1968 their glamorous exploits enthralled generations of radio listeners around the world. Here, presented in chronological order, are some of the amateur detective's earliest adventures. Send for Paul Temple (1940) is an early remake of the now-lost original 1938 BBC production. Paul Temple Intervenes (1942) finds Paul and Steve investigating a series of celebrity murders, whilst Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair (the original 1950 production, presented here for the very first time) concerns the strange disappearance of the Desmond baby and her sitter. Hugh Morton, Bernard Braden, Carl Bernard and Peter Coke play Paul in these episodes, with Bernadette Hodgson, Peggy Hassard and Marjorie Westbury as Steve.
A bonus track features rare archive material from otherwise lost productions, including the final episodes of Send for Paul Temple (1938) and Paul Temple and the Front Page Men (1938).
Caution: these programmes contain language that may cause offense, and dated attitudes that reflect the age in which they are set.
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Details
- Author
- Francis Durbridge
- Narrator
- Carl Bernard, Full Cast, Hugh Morton
- Duration
- 11 hours
- Release Date
- 18 February 2016
- ISBN
- 9781785292385
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- BBC Audio
- Genre
- Radio plays, scripts and performances, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Adventure / action fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Synopsis
Three complete radio dramas featuring writer and amateur detective Paul Temple, plus bonus archive material.When it comes to classic crime partnerships, Paul Temple and his wife Steve are the crème de la crème. Between 1938 and 1968 their glamorous exploits enthralled generations of radio listeners around the world. Here, presented in chronological order, are some of the amateur detective's earliest adventures. Send for Paul Temple (1940) is an early remake of the now-lost original 1938 BBC production. Paul Temple Intervenes (1942) finds Paul and Steve investigating a series of celebrity murders, whilst Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair (the original 1950 production, presented here for the very first time) concerns the strange disappearance of the Desmond baby and her sitter. Hugh Morton, Bernard Braden, Carl Bernard and Peter Coke play Paul in these episodes, with Bernadette Hodgson, Peggy Hassard and Marjorie Westbury as Steve.A bonus track features rare archive material from otherwise lost productions, including the final episodes of Send for Paul Temple (1938) and Paul Temple and the Front Page Men (1938). Caution: these programmes contain language that may cause offense, and dated attitudes that reflect the age in which they are set.
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