Carl Bernard, Kim Peacock, Bernard Braden and Hugh Morton star as radio’s most famous detective in 26 early archive episodes
Send For Paul Temple (1940) CD 1–3
Paul investigates a spate of violent robberies in this 1940 recording of the very first Paul Temple serial, starring Bernard
Braden and Peggy Hassard.
Produced by Andrew Allen
CBC Dominion Network (Based on an original production for the BBC Midland Service)
N.B. Send for Paul Temple is a 1940 Canadian radio recording, based on an original 1938 BBC serial.
Paul Temple Intervenes (1942) CD 4–5
Carl Bernard stars in this once lost 1942 serial, in which Paul is called in by Scotland Yard to investigate a series of brutal murders in wartime Britain.
Produced by Martyn C. Webster
BBC Forces Program
Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair (1950) CD 6–9
Kim Peacock played Paul Temple in a record nine productions between 1946 and 1953. Today only one of these productions is known to survive in the archives. It is released here for the very first time.
Produced by Martyn C. Webster
BBC Light Program
Also included in this set are two original 1938 episodes and an extract from an otherwise-lost Paul Temple serial from 1951
starring Kim Peacock and Marjorie Westbury.
Bonus Disc CD 10
• The First Penguin – A recording of the earliest surviving episode of Paul Temple
• The Front Page Men – A previously unreleased early episode
• Paul Temple and the Jonathan Mystery (Clip) – The only surviving extract from
this 1951 serial.
• Jeffrey Richards talks to Paul Temple actor, Peter Coke in this unbroadcast interview (20/03/98).
• Title music – Original and unedited Paul Temple title music recordings.
Due to the archive nature of the recordings, sound quality may vary.
Production: Charles Norton, Restoration: Mark Ayres and Ted Kendall,
Commissioning Editors: Michael Stevens and Jan Paterson
- ISBN13 9781785297212
- Publish Date 28 September 2016
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
- Format Audiobook (CD)
- Duration 11 hours and 22 minutes
- Language English