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Paul Temple: The Complete Radio Collection: Volume Two

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Paul Temple: The Complete Radio Collection: Volume Two

By: Francis Durbridge
Narrated by: Marjorie Westbury, Peter Coke
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Five complete radio dramas featuring writer and amateur detective Paul Temple, plus bonus archive material.

When it comes to classic crime partnerships, Paul Temple (Peter Coke) and his wife Steve (Marjorie Westbury) are the crème de la crème. Between 1938 and 1968 their glamorous exploits enthralled generations of radio listeners around the world. Here, presented in chronological order, are some of the amateur detective's adventures from the 1950s: The Gilbert Case (1954); The Lawrence Affair (1956); The Spencer Affair (1957); The Vandyke Affair (the 1959 remake) and The Conrad Case (1959). This collection also includes a number of bonus items.

Caution: these programmes contain language that may cause offense, and dated attitudes that reflect the age in which they are set.

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I remember and love all these​ crime/thriller radio stories and aim to collect more of them.

Nostalgia

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Highly recommended. Exciting, keeps you guessing! I've been listening for thirty years to this series and I keep coming back.

Highly recommended. Exciting, keeps you guessing!

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The stories are good and the audio quality is ok especially for the age of the material. There are several additional features but unfortunately there is a fair bit of repetition in these.

Great stories and interesting additional features

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Paul Temple was the longest running radio detective, and probably the last of the gentlemen detectives, and these series will take you back to another era. Many of the actors had worked together for years, and they have a great rapport, this,gives a sense of reality to the performances.

The stories are good, although if you listen to many series, you will notice a bit of a formula, but they are very enjoyable nonetheless!

Not really for those people who like to look for clues, and guess whodunnit, , your never really sure until the denouement, which is usually at a cocktail party, where all the principals are brought together!
Great fun!

Great Comfort Listening

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we have listened to all of the paul temple dramas. they are brilliant very of there time.

fab

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This is great Peter Coke as Paul Temple & Marjorie Westbury as his wife Steve. If I'm being critical all the stories have pretty similar storylines with the same structure. Even with that they are all fun & entertaining. Well worth listening to.

Great old time adaptation

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The Paul Temple radio series bring back echos of a bygone era. Great to listen to. Oh what a shame things are not like this anymore !!

Wonderful nostalgia

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I can readily understand why people tuned in every week to listen to the Paul Temple series. I know my parents certainly did. The plots are really quite cleverly done even if they do make the police look incredibly inept. And I know it was the 50's but really if my husband spoke to me the way Paul speaks to Steve sometimes, I would cheerfully clunk him on the head with something heavy!

Very entertaining

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The incredible feeling of nostalgia created by the full cast dramatisations is wonderful! These stories give us a glimpse into a past time when life was much more simple, and folk were well spoken and polite. The stories are typically over the top, action, gripping tales of adventure, mystery and intrigue: and the personal touches if the intimate relationships just adds to the feeling. Wonderful listening.

Paul Temple stories are always a pleasure

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Gets the imagination going as only radio can. Thoroughly good stories with plenty to think about for the listener.

Very immersive

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