Hecate
13-05-2008, 12:29
For fans of crime drama...
A new eight part recording of the Francis Durbridge radio serial 'Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery' will be broadcast by Radio 4 starting on Friday May 16th at 11.30 am.
The only copy of the 1955 Peter Coke/Marjorie Westbury recording apparently went missing in the post somewhere between Australia and the UK, so this is first chance in many a long year for fans of vintage, atmospheric radio to listen to the drama.
In 2006, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a brand-new production of one of the missing Temples – the ninth series, Paul Temple And The Sullivan Mystery, from 1947. Now, Paul Temple is back again and, as before, the production uses the unchanged original scripts, and was recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects as well as much of the original incidental music.
Returning from America by ocean liner, the Temples enjoy the company of their fellow First Class passengers, only to find one of them dead the next morning. When Paul and Steve return home to London, Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard is waiting to plunge them into one of their most thrilling and dangerous adventures yet: the pursuit of a ruthless gang of bank-note counterfeiters.
Once again, Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson play Paul and Steve Temple.
This isn't one of the earliest representations of a civil partnership, by the way. Steve is the pseudonym of Paul Temple's wife, Louise.
A new eight part recording of the Francis Durbridge radio serial 'Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery' will be broadcast by Radio 4 starting on Friday May 16th at 11.30 am.
The only copy of the 1955 Peter Coke/Marjorie Westbury recording apparently went missing in the post somewhere between Australia and the UK, so this is first chance in many a long year for fans of vintage, atmospheric radio to listen to the drama.
In 2006, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a brand-new production of one of the missing Temples – the ninth series, Paul Temple And The Sullivan Mystery, from 1947. Now, Paul Temple is back again and, as before, the production uses the unchanged original scripts, and was recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects as well as much of the original incidental music.
Returning from America by ocean liner, the Temples enjoy the company of their fellow First Class passengers, only to find one of them dead the next morning. When Paul and Steve return home to London, Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard is waiting to plunge them into one of their most thrilling and dangerous adventures yet: the pursuit of a ruthless gang of bank-note counterfeiters.
Once again, Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson play Paul and Steve Temple.
This isn't one of the earliest representations of a civil partnership, by the way. Steve is the pseudonym of Paul Temple's wife, Louise.