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Paul Temple is a fictional character created by English writer Francis Durbridge.Temple is a professional author of crime fiction and an amateur private detective.With his wife Louise, affectionately known as 'Steve' in reference to her journalistic pen name 'Steve Trent', he solves whodunnit crimes through subtle, humorously articulated deduction.
Francis Henry Durbridge (listen ⓘ; 25 November 1912 – 10 April 1998) [1] [2] 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.
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The surviving Paul Temple serials have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra. While "Steve Temple" might have been her longest-lasting role, she was a very frequent radio actress into the 1970s and beyond. During the 1950s, she created the part of the (fictional) Austrian soprano Elsa Strauss in the Hilda Tablet series of radio plays by Henry Reed.
The BBC never repeated Paul Temple.The series suffered badly in the BBC's wiping policy of the 1970s. Of the 52 episodes of Paul Temple that were made, only 16 survive. 11 of the surviving 16 episodes exist in colour, and these were re-run on UK Gold in its formative years in the 1990s.
Crawford Logan is a British actor best known for his work in radio. In 2006 he became the latest actor to play the eponymous hero Paul Temple in a revival of the long-running mystery series on BBC radio.
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Paul Temple's Triumph is a 1950 British second feature ('B') [1] crime film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan and Jack Livesey. [2] It was the third in the series of four Paul Temple films made at Nettlefold Studios [1] and was an adaptation by Francis Durbridge and A. R. Rawlinson of Durbridge's radio serial News of Paul Temple (1939).