Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair by Francis Durbridge

The signature tune was later changed to Coronation Scot by Vivian Ellis. The original signature tune was taken from Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov, with incidental music taken from the works of other composers, including Tintagel by Sir Arnold Bax. ĭurbridge's grave at Putney Vale Cemetery, London, in 2015 To many people, Coke and Westbury are most firmly identified with Paul and Steve. She remained as Steve for the rest of the radio run. Marjorie Westbury took over the part of Steve from the fifth serial, Send for Paul Temple Again (1945). Peter Coke took over the part from the 1954 serial, Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case, onwards. Carl Bernard took over the part of Paul in 1939. Hugh Morton played Paul, and Steve was played by Bernadette Hodgson. The first was Send for Paul Temple, broadcast in eight episodes on the BBC Midland Regional Programme from 8 April 1938. Work for radio Paul Temple in the United Kingdom ĭurbridge wrote twenty Paul Temple serials for radio. He also wrote forty-three novels, many of which were adapted from his scripts, sometimes with the help of others. ĭurbridge also forged a successful career as a writer for the stage with seven plays, the last of which, Sweet Revenge, was written in 1991. In addition to the Paul Temple series, Durbridge wrote other mysteries for radio and television, many of which were also produced for Dutch, German and Italian television and radio. With Steve Trent, a Fleet Street journalist who would later become his wife, Temple solved numerous crimes in the glamorous world of the leisured middle classes, at first on radio. ĭurbridge created the character of Paul Temple, a crime novelist and detective, in the 1930s. After graduating in 1933, he worked for a short time as a stockbroker's clerk before selling a radio play, Promotion, to the BBC at the age of 21. He continued to do so while studying English at the University of Birmingham. Biography ĭurbridge was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Bradford Grammar School, where he was encouraged to write by his English teacher.

info) 25 November 1912 – 11 April 1998) was an English dramatist and author, best known for the creation of the character Paul Temple, the gentlemanly detective who appeared in 16 BBC multi-part radio serials from 1938 onward.

Radio and television scriptwriter, playwright, author

Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair by Francis Durbridge