Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
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| 01 | The Notorious Dr Belasco | 20100611 | 20120126 (R4) | A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind in post-war London. Enlisted by Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard to help track down the mysterious Dr. Belasco, Paul and his wife Steve find clues in cigarette lighters and bodies in shrubberies, dance the night away in louche Latin American night clubs, meet sinister menservants and suspicious foreigners, and have their lives threatened at every turn. Just as well Steve remembered to bring along her revolver as well as her ration book... A mid-morning vintage champagne crime cocktail. Paul Temple - Crawford Logan Steve - Gerda Stevenson Sir Graham Forbes - Gareth Thomas Nelson - Jimmy Chisholm Mary Hamilton - Eliza Langland Kaufman - Nick Underwood Charlie/Worth - Greg Powrie Produced by Patrick Rayner The background: April 1938 saw the transmission on the BBC's Midland Regional Programme of a thriller serial called 'Send for Paul Temple', written by Francis Durbridge. For the next thirty years, until 1968, the incomparably suave private detective and crime novelist Paul, together with his glamorous Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most enduringly popular series. Unfortunately, recordings of many of the early series are lost to the archives. In 2006 Radio 4 broadcast a brand new production of one of the missing Temples - the ninth series, 'Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery', with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and Steve. Using vintage microphones and sound effects, and much of the original incidental music, the production was as far as possible a technical and stylistic replica of how the 1947 original might have sounded if its recording had survived. It proved enormously popular with the audience on Radio 4, and subsequently on Radio 7, with hundreds of letters, e-mails and phone calls. A second revival in 2008 (this time of 'Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery') proved equally popular. So, here we go again, with 'Paul Temple and Steve', which was first broadcast on the BBC's Light Programme in eight weekly episodes from 30th March 1947 to 18th May 1947. Francis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. He one of the most successful novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his day. The suave sleuth and his wife hunt a ruthless criminal mastermind. Stars Crawford Logan. |
| 02 | 27a Berkeley House Place | 20100618 | 20120202 (R4) | Paul's hunt takes him from London's Soho to a dangerous rendezvous on the Great North Road |
| 03 | Presenting Ed Bellamy | 20100625 | 20120209 (R4) | A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind in post-war London. Paul finds himself at cocktail party for two with the attractive and strangely watchful widow Mrs Forester, while Steve goes out on an eventful shopping expedition. But husband and wife are back together arm in arm later for an evening of intrigue and excitement at one of London's most fashionable night spots, the Machicha Club in Berkeley Square. Paul Temple - Crawford Logan Steve - Gerda Stevenson Sir Graham Forbes - Gareth Thomas Kaufman - Nick Underwood Worth - Greg Powrie Nelson - Jimmy Chisholm Insp. Perry - Michael Mackenzie Joseph - Richard Greenwood Mrs Forester - Candida Benson Ed Bellamy - Robin Laing Produced by Patrick Rayner. Paul and Steve enjoy an evening of intrigue at one of London's most fashionable nightspots |
| 04 | Mrs Forester Is Surprised | 20100702 | 20120216 (R4) | A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind in post-war London. Paul's investigations into the criminal activities of the shadowy Dr. Belasco have taken him and his wife Steve to London's Berkeley Square for a night of Latin American dancing at the fashionable Machicha Club. They're safe enough inside the Machicha - but it's a very different matter when they try to hail a taxi to go home... Paul Temple - Crawford Logan Steve - Gerda Stevenson Sir Graham Forbes - Gareth Thomas Kaufman - Nick Underwood Joseph - Richard Greenwood Mrs Forester - Candida Benson Ed Bellamy - Robin Laing Sergeant O'Day - John Paul Hurley Produced by Patrick Rayner. On the trail of the ruthless Dr Belasco, the sleuth faces danger on departing the Machicha |
| 05 | David Nelson Explains | 20100709 | 20120223 (R4) | A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind in post-war London. The investigation into the activities of the mysterious Dr. Belasco lead him to a murder scene in a flat above a London dry-cleaning business; but then the clues begin to point far away from the great city, to a lonely country house on Romney Marsh. Paul Temple - Crawford Logan Steve - Gerda Stevenson Sir Graham Forbes - Gareth Thomas Kaufman - Nick Underwood Worth/Charlie - Greg Powrie Nelson - Jimmy Chisholm Joseph - Richard Greenwood Mrs Forester - Candida Benson Ed Bellamy - Robin Laing Waitress - Lucy Paterson Produced by Patrick Rayner. The sleuth's probe leads him from a London murder scene to a country house on Romney Marsh |
| 06 | Steve's Intuition | 20100716 | 20120301 (R4) | A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind in post-war London. The hunt for the elusive Dr. Belasco leads Paul and Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard to a surprising discovery in a remote cottage. But it doesn't seem to take them any nearer finding Dr. Belasco - perhaps the two men should listen more attentively to Paul's wife Steve. Paul Temple - Crawford Logan Steve - Gerda Stevenson Sir Graham Forbes - Gareth Thomas Kaufman - Nick Underwood Worth/Charlie - Greg Powrie Nelson - Jimmy Chisholm Joseph - Richard Greenwood Mrs Forester - Candida Benson Ed Bellamy - Robin Laing Insp. Perry - Michael Mackenzie Produced by Patrick Rayner. The sleuth finds clues in a remote cottage. Should he have heeded his wife? |
| 07 | The Suspects | 20100723 | 20120308 (R4) | The net is closing on Dr Belasco, but the sleuth and his wife are now in danger. |
| 08 | The Final Curtain | 20100730 | 20120315 (R4) | A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind in post-war London. The identity of the mysterious Dr. Belasco is finally revealed. But it's one thing to unmask someone, quite another to capture them; and Belasco still has a trick or two up his - or is it her? - sleeve. Paul Temple - Crawford Logan Steve - Gerda Stevenson Sir Graham Forbes - Gareth Thomas Kaufman - Nick Underwood Worth/Charlie - Greg Powrie Nelson - Jimmy Chisholm Joseph - Richard Greenwood Ed Bellamy - Robin Laing Insp. Perry - Michael Mackenzie Produced by Patrick Rayner. Belasco is close to capture, but he - or she - still has a trick or two up their sleeve. |