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Peter Coke and the Paul Temple Affair

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31/12/2005

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Peter Coke and the Paul Temple Affair

By Timothy! Meet the man behind BBC radio's most debonair sleuth.

By Timothy! Meet the man behind BBC radio's most debonair sleuth. Actor Peter Coke talks to Michaela Saunders. From December 2005.

The man behind radio's most debonair sleuth, actor Peter Coke talks to Michaela Saunders. 

With the help of clips - from explosions to cocktail parties - Peter reveals how he got the part of Paul Temple - and ' By Timothy!' what does he really think of his famous catchphrase?  He also reveals what Paul Temple's creator Francis Durbridge thought of a spoof episode they recorded. 

Michaela also discovers what the actor got up to after his Paul Temple days.

Peter Coke died in 2008 aged 95. 

Producer: Ben Motley

Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2005.

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