1. The Fergusons

On a flight home from New York, Paul Temple and Steve meet the Fergusons, who are flying to England to visit their student son Richard at Oxford University.

Landing at the airport, they learn he's been shot - dead.

But there are only two clues...

Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife.

Paul Temple …. Peter Coke
Steve …. Marjorie Westbury
Robert Ferguson …. John Glen
Helen Ferguson …. Grizelda Hervey
Dinah Nelson …. Valerie Kirkbright
Sir Graham Forbes …. James Thomason
Reggie Mackintosh …. Simon Lack
Red Harris …. John Baddeley
Simo …. William Fox
Police Sergeant …. Frederick Treves

From 1938 to 1969, the crime fiction novelist and amateur detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case.

They inhabit a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where women are chic and men wear cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needs Paul's help with his latest tricky case.

Producer: Martyn C. Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1963.