Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Paul Temple Intervenes "The Marquis" (10-30-42)

The Marquis (Aired October 30, 1942)


Paul Temple, novellist and amateur detective, and his glamorous and intuitive wife, Steve, provided listeners to the BBC with some first rate radio serials from 1938 to 1968, all of which were scripted by writer Francis Durbridge. Paul and Steve inhabited a sophisticated, well-dressed world of cocktails and fast cars, where women are chic and men still wear cravats. The couple are frequently called in to help solve crimes by Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard. Paul Temple was first played on the BBC by Hugh Morton, who was followed over the years by Carl Bernard, Richard Williams, Barry Morse, Howard Marion Crawford, Kim Peacock, and ultimately by Peter Coke (pronounced Cook), who is today the best remembered of the actors who portrayed Paul Temple. The first Steve was played by Bernadette Hodgson. Marjorie Westbury took over the role in the fifth serial and then played the part in every serial until 1968. She had already appeared in the earlier productions in other parts; she even played a minor role in the very first one in 1938. This serial, 'Paul Temple Intervenes', is a wartime production from 1942. Carl Bernard and Bernadette Hodgson are the leads, but Marjorie Westbury is also among the cast. This is the earliest complete 'Paul Temple' serial now known to exist.

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