Send for Paul Temple was a huge success: within a week of the serial's final instalment the BBC received 7000 letters demanding more. Paul Temple made his first radio appearance on 8 April 1938 on the BBC's Midland Region. Durbridge had his first detective novel published at the age of twenty-two and went on to write three dozen more. The end result, Paul Temple, inhabited a world of luxurious sports cars, Knightsbridge flats and chic women - a bygone age of elegance and manners. For some time he toyed with the idea of creating a detective who was also a crime novelist, but was unable to finalise the character to his satisfaction until 1938.
After leaving university he worked for a short time in a stockbroker's office before realising that the only career he was really interested in was writing.
It was while he was there that his radio play, Persuasion, was written and broadcast. He was educated in Bradford and went on to Birmingham University. It features an exclusive interview with the definitive Paul Temple, Peter Coke, and rediscovered vintage recordings.įrancis Durbridge was born in Hull in on 25 November 1912. This audio edition also includes the BBC Radio 4 programme The Radio Detectives: 'Send for Paul Temple', an affectionate look at the indomitable husband and wife team, Paul and Steve Temple. However, no-one knows who this mysterious Mr Vandyke is. The only clue is a telephone message left in Miss Millicent's handwriting: 'A Mr Vandyke telephoned, he left no message'. When they visit Mary Desmond she is, understandably, very upset - it's already been a week since her eighteenth-month-old daughter vanished. In this adventure, Paul Temple is called in to investigate the disappearance of the Desmond baby, and the 'Sitter-In' Miss Millicent. 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. From 1938 to 1969 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.
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