Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair

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Paul Temple

Drama: Crime

The adventures of writer and amateur private detective, Paul Temple.

The adventures of writer and amateur private detective, Paul Temple. Created by Francis Durbridge

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1. The Sitter-in

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The detective and his journalist wife must find a missing baby and identify a mystery man.

The sleuth and wife Steve hunt a missing baby and must identify a mystery man. Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke.

When a baby goes missing, the suave sleuth and wife Steve are on the case - but can they identify a mystery man? 

Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.

Paul Temple …. Peter Coke
Steve …. Marjorie Westbury
Sir Graham Forbes …. Richard Williams
Inspector Eden …. Frederick Treves
Charlie …. James Beattie
Terry Palmer …. Peter Wilde
Mary Desmond …. June Tobin
Queenie Edwards …. Armine Sandford
Madame Flaubert …. Catherine Salkold
Cen Walters …. Haydn Jones

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 January 1959.

Paul Temple: Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair

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A telephone message is the only clue to the disappearance of a baby and her caretaker.

A cryptic telephone message is the only clue to the disappearance of an 18-month-old baby and her caretaker. Peter Coke stars as the debonair sleuth.

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