AuthorFrancis Durbridge
NarratorBBC Full-Cast
Duration3h 36m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherAudio Go Ltd
VersionUnabridged
A brand new eight-part remake of the lost archive drama 'A Case for Paul Temple', starring Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson. From 1938 to 1968 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular series. Now the glamorous duo return to the airwaves to break a mysterious drug-running gang. Post-war London is buzzing with speculation about the deaths of ten young drug addicts within the space of just one week. The police are desperate to cut off supplies of heroin and cocaine to the capital, but they are struggling. So Sir Graham Forbes turns to Paul Temple. By fast car and police launch, on deserted houseboats and midnight beaches, in dodgy East End pubs and smart West End restaurants, braving booby traps, bullets and blazing houses, Paul and Steve pursue the ruthless and feared drug dealer known only as 'Valentine'. This new production for BBC Radio 4 uses the original scripts, vintage sound effects and much of the original incidental music from the missing 1946 production. As far as possible it is a technical and stylistic replica of how that production might have sounded if its recording had survived.
Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair
Author: Francis Durbridge
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 4h 4m
In this adventure, Paul Temple is called in to investigate the disappearance of the Desmond baby, and the `Sitter-In' Miss Millicent. When they visit Mary Desmond she is, understandably, very upset - it's already been a week since her eighteenth-month-old daughter vanished. The only clue is a telephone message left in Miss Millicent's handwriting:...
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Author: Francis Durbridge
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 5h 12m
What links a secret formula for a new alloy, a short-sighted maker of model ships, international bargaining, a secret agent dying in a hotel and a Russian ship wrecked off the Yorkshire coast? Welcome to the world of Tim Frazer, the easy-going structural engineer who gets involved with a secret government department and, to his surprise, finds hims...
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Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery
Author: Francis Durbridge
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 2h 41m
This is another six-part case for crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist Steve. First transmitted in 1965, it was the penultimate episode of the series, which on and off had spanned 30 years from 1938 to 1968.
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Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery
Author: Francis Durbridge
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 3h 38m
In a thrilling case that takes Paul and Steve to exotic Egypt, Paul Temple is called in to investigate a mysterious murder. The twisting trail takes them from London to the back streets and nightclubs of Cairo...
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Author: Francis Durbridge
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator Toby Stephens
Duration 6h 17m
Paul Temple is in the middle of a lecture tour in America when he receives an urgent summons from the Home Secretary, requesting his immediate return to England. A serial killer calling himself 'The Marquis' has been murdering celebrities, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Back in London, Paul discovers that someone else has been desperately trying to...
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Paul Temple and the Conrad Case
Author: Francis Durbridge
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 3h 44m
Radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife solve a case of international mystery. The case this time involves Dr Conrad's daughter Betty, who has disappeared from her finishing school in Bavaria. Paul is invited by the police to go over there to help trace the missing girl. Initially, though, even he is baffled, since the only clue to the myst...
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Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case
Author: Francis Durbridge
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 3h 31m
From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular serials. They inhabit a sophisticated, well-dressed world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women are chic and the men still wear cravats.
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Paul Temple and the Jonathan Mystery
Author: Francis Durbridge
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 3h 35m
This case involves the Fergusons, who Paul and Steve meet while on the way home from New York. They are flying to England to visit their son Richard, a student at Oxford University. But at the airport, there is shocking news: Richard has been murdered, found shot dead in his room. The only clues are a postcard from Harrogate signed `Jonathan', and...
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Author: Francis Durbridge
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 3h 39m
From 1938 to 1968, crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular serials. Now the dapper duo return refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves, to investigate the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind in post-war London. Enlisted by S...
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Paultemple and the Spencer Affair
Author: Francis Durbridge
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 55m
Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury star in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. When young drama student Mary Drei...
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