Paul Temple

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Created by Francis Durbridge
(1912-1998)

“By Timothy!”

Anthony Hulme and Joy Shelton in the 1946 film Send for Paul Temple.

Once upon a time, one of the most popular private detectives of all time was PAUL TEMPLE.

Unless you were American.

But Temple ruled the U.K. and much of the Commonwealth, and his exploits entertained millions of fans around the world. He made his first appearance in a BBC radio serial in 1938 and went on to appear in further radio serials, several novels, four feature films, a BBC television series in the sixties and even a long-running daily comic strip that lasted almost twenty years. But his main stomping ground was radio–the show was good for a whopping thirty-year run, initially airing on the BBC and then sent out internationally with the result that Paul Temple, even now, has fans all over the world.

Temple is a mystery author turned private eye (and shit magnet–trouble just seems to follow him), who is frequently “sent for” by Scotland Yard to “help out.” Aiding him in almost all of his investigations is his faithful journalist wife, Louise, known to one and all as “Steve,” after her writing pen name of Steve Trent. Also frequently lending a hand is Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard, who would join the couple at the end of each show to offer a post-mortem of sorts on the case at hand.

They were structured very much in the manner of a traditional mystery, up to and including the concluding gathering of the suspects, and were invariably set in the genteel world of the upper classes, even if Temple himself is closer to Sherlock Homes than, say, Miss Marple. Still, the stories themselves were often quite suspenseful, and the radio serials were full of edge-of-your-seat ending, but nobody was ever going to mistake Temple for a member of the hard-boiled school–after all, he smoked a pipe and his favourite expletive was “By Timothy.”

Nor were the shows in any way particularly innovative–they relied heavily on a handful of much-loved tropes. So much so, in fact, that there was once a site (now sadly defunct) called Paul Temple and the Cliched Affair which broke down the formula and listed them, noting for example that

  • Every episode should end in a cliffhanger, if at all possible
  • The villain operates under an alias, and isn’t shy about meeting Paul under that alias
  • The bad guys kidnap Steve (or try to)
  • Someone will contact Paul, offering to meet somewhere to give him evidence on the case, only to be murdered before divulging that information
  • Paul and/or Steve run into an old friend who needs their help
  • Paul and Steve will gayly swap banter back and forth in Nick and Nora fashion
  • Paul is warned off the case by someone who later turns up dead
  • Paul and/or Steve are forced off the road (usually by a driver wearing a scarf over his face)
  • An attempt is made to kill Paul and/or Steve
  • The big finale will have Paul and Steve inviting all the suspects to a Nick and Nora-style cocktail party or dinner, where they’ll reveal the culprit
  • Perhaps the biggest trope of all: the mystery writer who actually solves actual crimes. Durbridge didn’t create it, of course, and he certainly wasn’t the last one to do it.

According to 20th Century Crime and Mystery Writers:

Francis Durbridge, Temple’s creator, is “a master of the cliffhanger, albeit verbal rather than unpleasantly physical. Durbridge has kept tight control over his creation over the years, being involved in almost all subsequent projects. The books were merely quickie novelizations of the radio scripts at first, but as the character’s popularity increased, wholly original adventures were soon being printed. A few of the books were even credited to “Paul Temple,” actually a pseudonym of Durbridge and fellow writer Douglas Rutherford.

There were four films in the forties, and in the fifties, a daily comic strip ran in the U.K. And in the late sixties, a television show made it on to the air, in colour even (all the films had been in black and white). There were other changes as well — for the first time, Francis Durbridge relinquished control and didn’t write the stories. Also, instead of the much-loved serials of the radio show, the series featured standalone episodes for the most part. Even more disconcerting to older fans were that the series was set squarely in to the swinging 60s, often abroad, and many of the old characters, such as Sir Graham Forbes, were tossed, although new characters were added to the roster. Still, the show proved popular enough to run for four series.

Not a bad run at all, if you ask me. Even now, I get quite a bit of mail about this character, and it’s not all from Brits of a certain age.

Unfortunately, about a third of the earliest original radio broadcasts have been lost over the years, mostly due to BBC cost-cutting measures (“Hey, we can tape over these!”), with all the surviving original shows released by the BBC Radio Collection, and in the 2000s, they began re-recording and airing the remaining episodes with new actors,  using the original sound effects and theme music when possible, all in an effort to retain as much as faithful as possible to the original broadcasts.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Francis Henry Durbridge was born in Hull, Yorkshire, in 1912 and attended Bradford Grammar School, where his writing was encouraged by an English teacher. He went on to read English at Birmingham University., where while still an undergraduate, he sold his first script to the BBC. Upon graduation, he worked as a stockbroker’s clerk, but continued to write scripts under a slew of pen names, selling as many as seventy of them to the BBC. By 1938, he was writing full time, and that’s when he created Paul Temple–he never looked back.  He cranked out radio shows, films, and stage plays featuring Temple, and was involved in the comic strip and television shows as well. He later created another series character, Tim Frazer, an undercover agent who appeared in both novels and as a TV series, and continued writing for the stage, as well as penning over twenty other stanalone novels, mostly thrillers, in his long career.

UNDER OATH

  • “In a burst of nostalgia I came across your page about Paul Temple. You expected the interest will be limited to “Brits of certain age”. Well, I’m definitely of certain age, but I must tell you that the Paul Temple radio series was a big hit in Israel in the early sixties. Streets were empty on Monday 21:00 when it was broadcasted (in Hebrew, of course). I remember myself in my own Bat-Mitsva (my 12th birthday) sneaking out of the banquet hall with my transistor, not to miss the weekly program.
    — blessings from Rachel, in Israel
  • “One thing that fascinated me as an 11-year-old in 1938,  prior to being evacuated out of London to where no radio was available , was the music. Both the intro and ending were awesome, hair-raising stuff… I never forgot it.”
    — George Sautereau
  • “Sorry to burst your bubble, but I am American, and I remember Paul Temple quite fondly. Mind you, I grew up in Detroit, and my parents and I heard the show coming in from across the border from Windsor, probably from the local CBC station.”
    — Lorne Jackson

RADIO PLAYS

 

  • PAUL TEMPLE
    (1938-1968, BBC)
    28 shows, most 8-part serials (except where noted)
    Written by Francis Durbridge
    Producer: Martyn C. Webster
    Theme music: “Coronation Scot” composed by Vivian Ellis
    Starring Hugh Morton as PAUL TEMPLE
    (later replaced by Carl Bernard, Barry Morse, Howard Marion Crawford, Kim Peacock and Peter Cooke)
    with Bernadette Hodgson as Steve Trent
    (later replaced by Marjorie Westbury, Thea Holme and Lucille Lisle)
    and Lester Mudditt (1938 – 1958) as Sir Graham Forbes
    (later replaced by Richard Williams and James Thomason)

    • SEND FOR PAUL TEMPLE
      (April 8-May 27, 1938)
      8-part serial
      25 minute episodes
      Starring Hugh Morton as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Bernadette Hodgson as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE FRONT PAGE MEN
      (November 1-December 21, 1938)
      8-part serial
      25-minute episodes
      Starring Hugh Morton as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Bernadette Hodgson as Steve
    • NEWS OF PAUL TEMPLE
      (November 13-December 18, 1939)
      6-part serial
      25-minute episodes
      Starring Hugh Morton as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Bernadette Hodgson as Steve
    • SEND FOR PAUL TEMPLE
      (October 13, 1941)
      1 60-minute episode (abridged remake)
      Starring Carl Bernard as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Thea Holme as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE INTERVENES
      (October 30-December 18, 1942)
      8-part serial
      20-minute episodes
      Starring Carl Bernard as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Bernadette Hodgson as Steve
    • NEWS OF PAUL TEMPLE
      (July 5, 1944)
      1 60-minute episode (abridged remake)
      Starring Richard Williams as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Lucille Lisle as Steve
    • SEND FOR PAUL TEMPLE AGAIN
      (September 13-November 1, 1945)
      8-part serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Barry Morse as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • A CASE FOR PAUL TEMPLE
      (February 7-March 28, 1946)
      8-part serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Howard Marion Crawford as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE GREGORY AFFAIR
      (October 17-December 19, 1946)
      10-part serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Kim Peacock as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND STEVE
      (March 30-May 18, 1947)
      8-part serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Kim Peacock as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • MR. AND MRS. PAUL TEMPLE
      (November 23, 1947)
      1 45-minute episode (abridged remake of “Paul Temple and Steve”)
      Starring Kim Peacock as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE SULLIVAN MYSTERY
      (December 1, 1947-January 19, 1948)
      8-part serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Kim Peacock as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE CURZON CASE
      (December 7, 1948-January 25, 1949)
      8-part serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Kim Peacock as PAUL TEMPLE 
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE MADISON MYSTERY
      (October 12-November 30, 1949)
      8-part serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Kim Peacock as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE VANDYKE AFFAIR
      (October 30-December 18, 1950)
      8-part serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Kim Peacock as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE JONATHAN MYSTERY
      (May 10-June 28, 1951)
      8-part serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Kim Peacock as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND STEVE AGAIN
      (April 8, 1953)
      1 60-minute episode
      Starring Kim Peacock as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE GILBERT CASE | Buy this dramatization
      (March 29-May 17, 1954)
      8-part serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Peter Coke as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE MADISON MYSTERY (REMAKE)
      (June 20-August 8, 1955)
      8-part serial, remake of previous serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Peter Coke as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE LAWRENCE AFFAIR | Buy this dramatization
      (April 11-May 30, 1956)
      8-part serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Peter Coke as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
      Also starring Dorothy Holmes-Gore, Brewster Mason, Manning Wilson, Arthur Ridley
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE SPENCER AFFAIR | Buy this dramatization
      (November 13, 1957-January 1, 1958)
      8-part serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Peter Coke as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE VANDYKE AFFAIR (REMAKE) | Buy this dramatization
      (January 1-February 19, 1959)
      8-part serial, remake of previous serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Peter Coke as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE CONRAD CASE | Buy this dramatization
      (March 2-April 20, 1959)
      8-part serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Peter Coke as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE GILBERT CASE (REMAKE)
      (November 22, 1959)
      8-part serial, remake of previous serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Peter Coke as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE MARGO MYSTERY | Buy this dramatization
      (January 1, 1961-February 19, 1962)
      8-part serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Peter Coke as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE JONATHAN MYSTERY (REMAKE) | Buy this dramatization
      (October 14-December 2, 1963)
      8-part serial, remake of previous serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Peter Coke as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE GENEVA MYSTERY | Buy this dramatization
      (April 11-May 16, 1965)
      6-part serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Peter Coke as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE ALEX AFFAIR | Buy this dramatization
      (February 26, 1968)
      8-part serial, remake of “Send for Paul Temple Again”
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Peter Coke as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Marjorie Westbury as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE SULLIVAN MYSTERY (REMAKE) | Buy this dramatization
      (August 7-October 2, 2006)
      8-part serial, remake of previous serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Crawford Logan as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Gerda Stevenson as Steve
      The first of the re-recorded versions of this century, utilizing — when possible– the original theme music and sound effects.
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE MADISON MYSTERY (REMAKE)
      (May 16-July 4, 2008)
      8-part serial, remake of previous serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Crawford Logan as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Gerda Stevenson as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND STEVE (REMAKE) | Buy this dramatization
      (June 11-July 30, 2010)
      8-part serial, remake of previous serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Crawford Logan as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Gerda Stevenson as Steve
    • A CASE FOR PAUL TEMPLE (REMAKE) | Buy this dramatization
      (August 24-October 12, 2011)
      8-part serial, remake of previous serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Crawford Logan as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Gerda Stevenson as Steve
    • PAUL TEMPLE AND THE GREGORY AFFAIR (REMAKE)
      (July 3-September 11, 2013)
      10-part serial, remake of previous serial
      30-minute episodes
      Starring Crawford Logan as PAUL TEMPLE
      and Gerda Stevenson as Steve
  • THE LIGHT PROGRAMME
    (1949, BBC)

    • “The Night of the Twenty-Seventh”
      (December 27, 1949, BBC)
      Christmas special
      Produced by Martyn C. Webster
      Written by Edward J. Mason
      Starring Kim Peacock as PAUL TEMPLE
      Marjorie Westbury as Steve Temple
      Robert Beatty as PHILIP ODELL
      Duncan Carse as DICK BARTON
      Brian Reece as PC 49
      Valentine Dyall as THE MAN IN BLACK
      Douglas Burbidge as DR. DALE
      and Ellis Powell as MRS. DALE
      A rare gathering of most of the BBC’s most popular detectives at the time, first broadcast as a Christmas special in 1949.

NOVELS

Many of the radio scripts were novelized by Francis Durbridge between 1938 and 1989, often in collaboration with John Thewes, Douglas Rutherford or Charles Hatten. Those with Rutherford were published under the pen-name “Paul Temple”, in fact.

SHORT STORIES

  • “Light-Fingers” (1950, The Daily Mail Annual for Boys and Girls)
    Adapted from special Christmas broadcast. According to reader Adam Jezard, “The story is actually a bit of a brainteaser, as children’s stories tended to be in those far-off days, and challenged readers to work out how Paul solved the case and check their answers with the solution provided by Durbridge at the end of the book.”  The story was eventually reprinted in The Armchair Detective in 1993″.

FILMS

  • SEND FOR PAUL TEMPLE
    (aka “The Green Finger”)
    (1946, Butchers Film Service, U.K.)
    Black and white
    83 minutes
    Screenplay by Francis Durbridge and John Argyle
    Directed by John Argyle
    Produced by John Argyle
    Starring Anthony Hulme as PAUL TEMPLE
    and Joy Shelton as Steve
    Also starring Tamara Desni, Jack Raine, Beatrice Varley, Hylton Allen, Maire O’Neill, Philip Ray, Olive Sloane
  • CALLING PAUL TEMPLE
    (1948)
    Black and white
    92 minutes
    Screenplay by Francis Durbridge, A.R. Rawlinson, Kathleen Butler
    Directed by Maclean Rogers
    Produced by Ernest G. Roy
    Starring John Bentley as PAUL TEMPLE
    and Dinah Sheridan as Steve
    Also starring Margaretta Scott, Abraham Sofaer, Celia Lipton, Jack Raine, Alan Wheatley, Hugh Pryse , Wally Patch
    Not much detecting going on here, no discernible chemistry between the two leads, and the plot (and its resolution) makes no sense. Whatever magic there was around this franchise isn’t apparent in this waste of time
  • PAUL TEMPLE’S TRIUMPH
    (1950, Butchers/Nettlefold Films)
    Black and white
    80 minutes
    Screenplay by A.R. Rawlinson
    Directed by Maclean Rogers
    Produced by Ernest G. Roy
    Starring John Bentley as PAUL TEMPLE
    and Dinah Sheridan as Steve
    Also starring Barbara Couper, Hugh Dempster, Dino Galvani, Andrew Leigh, Jack Livesey, Jenny Mathot, Ivan Samson, Bruce Seton, Beatrice Varley
  • PAUL TEMPLE RETURNS
    (1952, Nettlefold)
    Black and white
    71 minutes
    Screenplay by Francis Durbridge
    Directed by Maclean Rogers
    Produced by Ernest G. Roy
    Starring John Bentley as PAUL TEMPLE
    and Patricia Dainton as Steve
    Also starring Peter Gawthorne, Valentine Dyall, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Ben Williams, Christopher Lee, Grey Blake, Arthur Hill, Robert Urquhart, Dan Jackson

COMIC STRIPS

  • PAUL TEMPLE
    (November 19, 1951-May 1, 1971)
    Daily
    Artists: Alfred Sindall, Bill Bailey, John McNamara

TELEVISION

  • PAUL TEMPLE
    (1968-69, BBC)
    12 episodes
    Written by Francis Durbridge
    Starring John Bentley as PAUL TEMPLE
    and Dinah Sheridan as Steve
    Either these guys were getting a little long in the tooth, or this was a repackaging of some old films.
  • PAUL TEMPLE
    (1969-71, BBC1)
    A BBC Television Production
    52 60-minute episodes, colour
    Writers: Victor Canning, Peter Miller, John Roddick, David Ellis, John Tully, Bill Strutton, Derrick Sherwin, John Tully, David Roberts, Michael Chapman, Patrick Alexander, Eddie Boyd
    Directors: Douglas Camfield, Cyril Abrahams, Paul Ciappessoni, Eric Hills, David Chantler Ken Hannam, Christopher Barry, Michael Ferguson, John Matthews, Frank Cox, George Spenton-Foster, Michael Ferguson
    Producers: Alan Bromley, Peter Bryant, Derrick Sherwin, Tina Wakerell, Douglas Camfield, Paul Ciappessoni, Rex Tucker
    Starring Francis Matthews as PAUL TEMPLE
    and Ros Drinkwater as Steve
    Guest appearances: Kathleen Byron

    • SERIES ONE
    • “Who Dies Next” (November 23, 1969)
    • “Message from A Dead Man” (November 30, 1969)
    • “There Must Be A Mr X” (December 7, 1969)
    • “Missing Penny” (December 14, 1969)
    • “The Man Who Wasn’t Really There” (December 21, 1969)
    • “Which One of Us Is Me?” (December 28, 1969)
    • “Inside Information” (January 4, 1970)
    • “The Masked Lady” (January 11, 1970)
    • “Swan Song For Colonel Harp” (January 18, 1970)
    • “Mr. Wallace Predicts” (January 25, 1970)
    • “Letters From Robert” (February 1, 1970)
    • “The Man From the Sea” (February 8, 1970)
    • “The Victim” (February 15,1970)
    • SERIES TWO
    • “Right Villain” (April 5, 1970)
    • “Kill Or Cure” (April 12, 1970)
    • “Games People Play” (April 19, 1970)
    • “The Artnappers” (April 26, 1970)
    • “The Black Room” (May 3, 1970)
    • “Antique Death, Part One” (May 10, 1970)
    • “Antique Death, Part Two” (May 17, 1970)
    • “Double Vision” (May 24, 1970)
    • “Steal A Little Happiness” (June 28, 1970)
    • “The Suitcase” (July 5, 1970)
    • “Murder In Munich, Part One” (July 12, 1970)
    • “Murder In Munich, Part Two” (July 19, 1970)
    • “Re-Take” (July 26, 1970)
    • SERIES THREE
    • “House Of the Dead  (January 10, 1971)
    • “Sea Burial” (January 17 , 1971)
    • “Night Train” (January 24 , 1971)
    • “Corrida” (February 7 , 1971)
    • “Death For Drivers’ Reasons” (February 14 , 1971)
    • “A Greek Tragedy” (February 21 , 1971)
    • “The Specialists” (February 28 , 1971)
    • “Has Anybody Seen Kelly?” (March 7 , 1971)
    • “Requiem For A Don” (March 14 , 1971)
    • “Motel ” (March 21 , 1971)
    • “Cue Murder!” (March 28 , 1971)
    • “Death Of Fasching” (April 4 , 1971)
    • “Catch Your Death” (April 11, 1971)
    • SERIES FOUR
    • “Paper Chase” (June 9, 1971)
    • “Death Sentence” (June 16, 1971)
    • “Ricochet” (June 23, 1971)
    • “With Friends Like You, Who Needs Enemies?” (June 30, 1971)
    • “Party Piece” (July 7, 1971)
    • “The Quick and the Dead” (July 14, 1971)
    • “The Man Who Forged Real Money” (July 21, 1971)
    • “A Family Affair” (July 28, 1971)
    • “The Guilty Must Die” (August 4, 1971)
    • “Game, Set and Match” (August 11, 1971)
    • “Long Ride to Red Gap” (August 18, 1971)
    • “Winner Takes All” (August 25, 1971)
    • “Critics, Yes! But This Is Ridiculous!” (September 1, 1971)

REFERENCE

  • Barnes, Melvyn,
    Francis Durbridge: The Complete Guide | Buy this book
    Williams & Whiting, 2018.
    A true labour of love by a true fan, Francis Duridge: A Centenary Appreciation (2015), was a slim (140 pages), self-produced volume neatly summarizing of Durbridge’s life and offering an eye-opening “annotated listing of his novels and his works for radio, television, the stage and the cinema.” The book proved to be so popular, both in the U.K. and abroad, that it was revised and vastly expanded (242 pages!) and released in 2018 as Francis Durbridge: The Complete Guide.

FURTHER INVESTIGATION

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith. A thousand thanks to Adam Jezard, John Herrington and Ian Lyman for helping to plug the holes. Pictured are Anthony Hulme as Paul Temple and Joy Shelton as Steve in Send for Paul Temple (1948).

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4 thoughts on “Paul Temple”

  1. I first heard of Paul Temple in the early 1980s, when a Los Angeles area public radio station (KCRW, Santa Monica College) broadcast several of the early 60s radio serials. I remember the titles of the Jonathan, Margo, and Geneva mysteries, though I’m darned if I remember anything about the stories. I became a steady listener. The stories were fun, though frustrating because you needed a scorecard to keep track of characters and clues from episode to episode. Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury made a perfect Paul and Steve (by the way, thanks for finally explaining her nickname). They had a charming rapport that made one believe some rather unbelievable dialogue.

    Strange to relate, the only detail I remember about any of the episodes was the time Paul and Steve visited that disreputable swingin’ rock’n’roll night spot, The Groove Club. Steve moaned about the loud, awful music. However the background music the producer pulled from the BBC archive sounded more like a genteel 1950s jazz club. You could almost hear the musicians’ berets and goatees. It was hilarious.

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  3. This is a great piece.
    I have been a Paul Temple fan since the mid 90’s when my mum gave me a cassette to keep me occupied while i was off school sick and laid up in bed.

    One question though, does any know if the Conrad Case was ever actually published in book form? I know its listed on Amazon, but i have never found, seen or heard of a copy in the wild??!?

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    1. Thanks, Alex. As for the Conrad Case, it looks like it was only released as an audiobook, perhaps the victim of diminishing returns. Or it was released thirty years ago, and Amazon no longer has any. You might try some of the used book places.

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