Paul Temple

The Paul Temple series was an immensely popular BBC radio production that saw new episodes over a thirty-year span from 1938 to 1968. Temple and his wife "Steve" are both mystery authors (his wife's name "Steve" was derived from her pen name of "Steve Trent") who keep finding themselves embroiled in mysteries. Their experience in designing plots and characters for their stories informs their ability to solve those mysteries.

The series was created by Francis Durbridge, who wrote the scripts. Over the years, a number of actors voiced the Temples, but by far the most popular were Peter Coke (pronounced "cook") and Marjorie Westbury, who worked together for the latter half of the span of the series.

The series became immensely popular with good reason, as it was well-crafted, well-produced, and well-plotted; it led to movies, television series, novels (based on the radio scripts), and even a newspaper comic strip . In a footnote, each story is introduced as "a Francis Durbridge serial," not as a mystery or adventure.

For more information, see Wikipedia.

Series description provided by Frank Bell.