Paul Temple and the Spencer Affair

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Paul Temple

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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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Paul Temple: Paul Temple and the Spencer Affair: 1. My Heart and Harry

1. My Heart and Harry

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The suave sleuth and his wife are drawn into the murder of an impresario's daughter.

The suave sleuth is drawn into the murder of an impresario's daughter. Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke. From 1957.

The suave amateur private detective is drawn into the murder of the actress daughter of a theatre impresario. 

Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. 

Paul Temple    ……    Peter Coke
Steve    ……    Marjorie Westbury
Det Insp Vosper    ……    Hugh Manning
Charlie    ……    James Beattie
Eric Lansdale    ……    John Graham
Sir Graham Forbes    ……    Lester Mudditt 
Rupert Dreisler    ……    Brewster Mason
Adrian Frost    ……    Simon Lack
Judy Milton    ……    June Turbin
Pete Roberts    ……    Thomas Heathcote

From 1938 to 1969, the crime fiction novelist and amateur detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case.  They inhabit a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where women are chic and men wear cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needs Paul's help with his latest tricky case.

Producer: Martyn C Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1957.

Paul Temple: Paul Temple and the Spencer Affair

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Mary is found murdered in her flat, but there appears to have been no motive.

When drama student Mary is found murdered in her flat, her father instantly sends for Paul Temple. There appears to have been no struggle, no robbery, no motive. Peter Coke stars.

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