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Paul TemplePaul Temple and the Alex Affair
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The debonair sleuth investigates when three murders are linked to 'Alex'. Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke.

Debonair detective Paul Temple is on the case when three murders are linked to 'Alex'.

Starring Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury as BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.

Another baffling case of dastardly crimes must be solved.

Written by Francis Durbridge.

Paul Temple …. Peter Coke
Steve …. Marjorie Westbury
Sir Graham Forbes …. James Thomason
Inspector Crane …. Haydn Jones
‘Spider’ Williams …. Alan Dudley
Mulroy …. Michael Harbour
Lady Weyman …. Betty Hardy
Webb/Shaw …. Ronald Herdman
Wilfred Davis …. Basil Jones
Carl Lathom …. Simon Lack
Donald Black …. Victor Lucas
Mrs Trevelyan …. Barbara Mitchell
Dr Kohima’s Maid …. Ann Murray
Dot …. Hilda Schroder
Walter Day/Lang …. Anthony Viccars
Sir Ernest Cranberry …. Geoffrey Wincott

From 1938 to 1969, the fictional crime novelist and amateur detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, battled to solve case after baffling case in a. sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars.

Producer: Martyn C Webster

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1968.

30 minutes

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