Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery | BBC RADIO DRAMA

Returning from America by ocean liner, the Temples enjoy the company of their fellow passengers, only to find one of them dead the next morning - and when Paul and Steve get home to London, Sir Graham is waiting to plunge them into one of their most thrilling and dangerous adventures, the pursuit of a ruthless international gang of counterfeiters. As knives fly and bombs explode, the key to the puzzle seems to lie in a coin on the end of a watch-chain...

In this recreation of the 1949 vintage crime serial, Crawford Logan stars as Paul Temple with Gerda Stevenson as Steve.

From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular serials. They inhabit a sophisticated, well-dressed world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women are chic and the men wear cravats - and where Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard always needs Paul's help with a tricky case.

Sadly, only half of their adventures survive in the archives. But in 2006, the BBC began lovingly recreating them using original scripts and incidental music, and recorded with vintage microphones and sound effects.

Paul Temple ...... Crawford Logan
Steve ...... Gerda Stevenson
Sir Graham Forbes ...... Gareth Thomas
Stella Portland ...... Emma Currie
George Kelly ...... Robin Laing
Inspector Vosper ...... Michael Mackenzie
Hubert Greene ...... Richard Greenwood
Chris Boyer ...... Nick Underwood
Dr Elzec ...... Greg Powrie
Moira Portland ...... Lucy Paterson
Don Alfaro ...... Jimmy Chisholm

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2008

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