I was quick to order and delighted to listen to this latest BBC reissue of one of the Paul Temple radio serials. This one is as good as any of them. Their prolific creator, Francis Durbridge, has Temple and his wife Steve investigating a crime involving drugs and women’s coats, thereby giving the wonderful Marjorie Westbury, who plays Steve, rather more to do than is usual.
Older listeners will want to settle comfortably in the best chair as soon as the theme (Coronation Scot) begins. Younger listeners might find that crime serials on radio from the 1960s had most of the best features of today’s TV equivalent together with much more charm.
Each episode is heard in its entirety here (some Paul Temple reissues have joined them all together), the eight episodes occupying 4 CDs. The sound quality is satisfactory for its era. One’s ear soon adjusts to a plain AM signal. I found that some treble boost helped.
BBC Audiobooks are warning that this (seventh) Paul Temple mystery is the penultimate one that will be reissued. This one ends with Paul announcing that he and Steve will now take a holiday in Jamaica, news that prompts Sir Graham Forbes to say, “Come back soon. London isn’t the same without the Temples.”
Paul Temple And The Margo Mystery (Dramatisation)
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