Episode details

Radio 4 Extra,24 Aug 2011,30 mins
Available for 28 days
Ten apparent suicides in one single week - and all of them drug addicts. Scotland Yard desperately turns to Paul Temple for help. This is a recreation of the BBC vintage crime serial first heard in 1946. Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson star as Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve Between 1938 and 1968, they solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabit a sophisticated, well-heeled world of cocktails and fast cars. Sadly, only half of their original adventures survive in the archives. But in 2006, the BBC began recreating them using original scripts and incidental music. Recordings were made using vintage microphones and sound effects. Paul Temple ...... Crawford Logan Steve ...... Gerda Stevenson Sir Graham ...... Gareth Thomas Major Peters ...... Greg Powrie Supt. Wetherby ...... Richard Greenwood Sheila Baxter ...... Melody Grove Snooker Riley ...... Jimmy Chisholm Charles Kelvin ...... Nick Underwood Joy ...... Lucy Patterson Producer: Patrick Rayner First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2011.
Programme Website