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Paul Temple And The Madison Mystery

By: Francis Durbridge
Narrated by: Crawford Logan, Full Cast, Gerda Stevenson
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From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular serials. They inhabit a sophisticated, well-dressed world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women are chic and the men wear cravats - and where Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard always needs Paul's help with a tricky case. Returning from America by ocean liner, the Temples enjoy the company of their fellow passengers, only to find one of them dead the next morning - and when Paul and Steve get home to London, Sir Graham is waiting to plunge them into one of their most thrilling and dangerous adventures, the pursuit of a ruthless international gang of counterfeiters. As knives fly and bombs explode, the key to the puzzle seems to lie in a coin on the end of a watch-chain... This new production for BBC Radio 4 uses the original scripts, vintage sound effects and much of the original incidental music from a lost archive 1949 production. As far as possible, it is a technical and stylistic replica of how that production might have sounded had its recording survived.©2008 BBC Audiobooks Ltd; (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks Ltd Crime Fiction Drama & Plays Entertainment & Performing Arts European Literary History & Criticism Mystery World Literature Exciting
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Intrepid Paul Temple and his wife Steve get embroiled in another adventure that takes them on a journey of murder and intrigue. Keeps you entertained and guessing until the very end! Master of Mystery is Francis Durbridge.
One of many quality stories for a lost bygone age

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A classic BBC afternoon dramatization be ready to be submerged in art deco, glamour, spies and mysteries. Nothing too serious pure escapism.

escape to another time

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A huge entertainment! The plot develops at a rate of knots. Somehow I hung onto the burgeoning cast of characters and had a thoroughly good time. The “period”presentation played a part, the indomitable “Steve”, those Upper Middle accents, all the “.darlings”, the “What will you have to drinks”, the murders innumerable, never dwelt-on; and the trademark opening and closing theme music which you hear many times over, the episodic form having been maintained. I’m not sure I grasped the intricacies of the plot, helped on as it was by amazing coincidences (never questioned); nor am I certain that I remember, twenty four hours later “whodunnit”! But I did have that “jolly good time”!

Ah! TheFun!

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These stories are pure escapism, and reveal so much about the era they were written, old fashioned and frequently sexist (the wife, Stevie, so often is the one who picks up the clues, or works out the motives not because she is smart you understand, but because she uses her "intuition"). Book after book, they find people, half dead, groaning in the bushes, bombs in car, and poison in drinks. The working classes are "the salt of the earth", women have "pasts" and dry martini's are to die for. And yet, and yet, theres something about the stories that is really relaxing and fun, or as Paul Temple might say "by Timothy they are good"............. I downloaded the first of these dramatisations when I was going through a particularly stressful time, i didnt want gritty reality, i wanted to be completely transported to another time and place.....................I am now on my 5th Paul Temple story, and love the escapism they bring.................

Pure escapism.......

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This is an authentic update of the durbridge serials.the characters remain true to the radio production. Very good swashbuckling stuff.

Good update of this classic

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