Radio’s smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife solve a case of international mystery 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 still wear cravats. And where Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard always needs Paul s help with a tricky case. First broadcast on the 30th October 1942 this is the oldest full length drama to remain in the BBC archives. Starring Carl Bernard and Bernadette Hodgson as Paul Temple and his wife Steve this detective duo help Scotland Yard to track down master criminal The Marquis in eight thrilling episodes.

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A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as the deceptively mild spinster sleuth. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn including Miss Marple are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: ‘A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm. Is it a hoax? As the time approaches the crowds gather at Little Paddocks; and then the lights go out. This was Agatha Christie’s fiftieth book – acknowledged to be one of the best.

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