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2. The Third Shoe

Trying to clear a man of murder, the sleuth and wife Steve visit him in jail. Stars Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury. From 1954.

Howard Gilbert has been convicted for the murder of his model girlfriend, Brenda.

But did he really kill her? The debonair sleuth and his wife pay him a visit in jail.

Francis Durbridge's thriller starring Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury.

It's another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife

Paul Temple …. Peter Coke
Steve …. Marjorie Westbury
Charlie …. James Beattie
Wilfred Stirling …. Charles Leno
Detective Inspector Kingston …. Duncan McIntyre
Lance Reynolds …. Richard Williams
Howard Gilbert …. David Peel
Mrs Talbot …. Anne Cullen
Dick Metcalf …. Cyril Shaps
Warder …. Geoffrey Bond

Producer: Martyn C Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1954.

30 minutes

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