Paul Temple: The Complete Radio Collection: Volume One by Francis Durbridge

Paul Temple: The Complete Radio Collection: Volume One by Francis Durbridge

Three complete radio dramas featuring writer-cum-amateur detective Paul Temple, plus bonus archive material. When it comes to classic crime partnerships, Paul Temple and his wife Steve are the creme de la creme. 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 is an early remake of the now-lost original 1938 BC production. Paul Temple Intervenes finds Paul and Steve investigating a series of celebrity murders, while Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair 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 disc features rare archive material from otherwise lost productions, including the final episodes of Send for Paul Temple and Paul Temple and the Front Page Men. Duration: 11 hours approx.

Francis Durbridge ( 1912 – 1998) was an English playwright and author.
In 1938 he created the character Paul Temple, a crime novelist and detective. With Steve Trent, a Fleet Street journalist and later his wife, Temple solved numerous crimes in the glamorous world of the leisured middle classes, first on radio, then in films and, from 1969 to 1971, in a television series. In addition to the Paul Temple series, Durbridge wrote other mysteries for radio and television, many of which were also produced for Dutch, German and Italian television and radio.e with seven plays, the last of which, Sweet Revenge, was written in 1991. He also wrote forty-three novels, many of which were adapted from his scripts, sometimes with the help of others.

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EAN	9781785292378
Title	Paul Temple: The Complete Radio Collection: Volume One
Release date	2016-02-18
Format	Audiobook CD Unabridged
Studio	BBC Physical Audio
Condition	Unavailable
Note	Unavailable

By (author)	Francis Durbridge
Read by	Carl Bernard
Read by	Full Cast