Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case by Francis Durbridge

It also has the husky voiced Grizelda Harvey and of course the inimitable, ever fresh, adorable Marjorie Westbury. Can he solve the case in time?įeaturing the celebrated pairing of Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve, Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case was first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme from 29 March to. Two productions of this Francis Durbridge radio serial were made in the 1950s and this (earlier) one marks the debut of Peter Coke in the role of Paul Temple. If he's to prevent an unjust hanging, Paul has just a week in which to discover the truth. In spite of all the evidence against Gilbert, Mr Stirling asks Paul to clear his name and discover the real murderer.

Her boyfriend Howard Gilbert, seen walking away from the site, has been convicted of the murder and sentenced to hang - but Brenda's father feels sure he didn't do it. Durbridge had his first detective novel published at the age of twenty-two and went on to write three dozen more. His daughter Brenda was recently murdered, her body dumped on a bomb site. The end result, Paul Temple, inhabited a world of luxurious sports cars, Knightsbridge flats and chic women - a bygone age of elegance and manners.

Just as Paul and Steve are about to go on holiday, Wilfred Stirling visits with a plea. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. For thirty years the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular series.

Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case by Francis Durbridge