Paul Temple and Steve by Francis Durbridge

First heard on BBC Radio 4 in 1998 Basil. However, the BBC hadn't finished with Paul Temple, and in 1969 he was to debut on British television - in colour. This was also the final Francis Durbridge / Martin C. He was one of the most successful novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his day. The whole Paul Temple canon was written by Francis Durbridge and starred, most famously, Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury in the lead roles. Paul Temple and Steve ended their 30 year radio career with the broadcast of the Paul Temple and the Alex Affair serial in 1968. Temple and Sir Graham take to the river in the hunt for the missing girl.įrancis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. Now, from 1946, it's the turn of Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair, in which Paul and Steve go on the trail of the mysterious and murderous Mr Gregory. The serial proved so popular that it was soon followed by three more revivals, Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery, Paul Temple and Steve, and A Case for Paul Temple. Durbridge was the master of the cliffhanger and. Using the original scripts and incidental music, and recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects, the production of Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery aimed to sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have done if its recording had survived. English tv, radio, and mystery writer, whose best known series character is Paul Temple and his wife Steve.

In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to life with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and Steve. Sadly, only half of Temple's adventures survive in the archives. Francis Durbridge Paul Temple: The Complete Radio Series: Collection Two: Classic BBC Radio Drama Audio CD Unabridged, Decemby Francis Durbridge (Author) 22 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0. Part 9 of a new production of a vintage serial from 1946.įrom 1938 to 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most popular series.

Paul Temple and Steve by Francis Durbridge