Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case

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Murder mysteries from the world's greatest crime fiction writers. Only on BBC Sounds.

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Whodunnits: Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case: 1. The Unlucky One

Paul Temple

1. The Unlucky One

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Should Howard Gilbert hang for murder? The suave sleuth investigates.

Should Howard Gilbert hang for murder? The suave sleuth investigates. Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke. From 1954.

Should Howard Gilbert hang for the murder of a model? 

The victim's father thinks he's innocent. 

Suave sleuth Paul Temple and his glamorous wife investigates. 

Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest pair of investigators.     

Paul Temple ….  Peter Coke
Steve ….  Marjorie Westbury
Charlie ….  James Beattie
Wilfred Stirling …. Charles Leno
Sir Graham Forbes …. Lester Mudditt
Detective Inspector Kingston …. Duncan McIntyre
Betty Wayne …. Grizelda Hervey
Lance Reynolds …. Richard Williams
Dick Metcalf …. Cyril Shaps

From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case-after-case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars.

Producer: Martyn C Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1954.

Whodunnits: Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case

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A dead girl's father is sure the police have placed the wrong man in the gallows.

A young woman was murdered, and her boyfriend is set to hang for the crime. But her father is convinced the man is innocent. Can Temple solve the case in time? Stars Peter Coke.

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