Peter Coke and
Marjorie Westbury star in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife
From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple , together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series.
They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats — a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case.
In this adventure, Paul Temple is called in to investigate the disappearance of the Desmond baby, and the 'Sitter-in' Miss Millicent. When they visit Mary Desmond she is, understandably, very upset — it's already been a week since her eighteenth-month-old daughter vanished. The only due is a telephone message left in Miss Millicent's handwriting: 'A Mr Vandyke telephoned, he left no message'. However, no-one knows who this mysterious Mr Vandyke is...
Author : Jerry Robbins
Narrated By : Full Cast Production
Published By : Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air
Duration : 4 minutes
Categories : American
Old Time Radio
Drama
Westerns
Price : Free
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Author : Rafael Sabatini
Narrated By : Colonial Radio Theatre
Published By : Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air
Duration : 25 minutes
Categories : Audio Theater
Drama
Dramatizations
Action & Adventure
Historical
Price : $1.50
Arabaella Bishop and Lord Julian are sailing to Barbados, when their ship is attacked by Don Miguel and the Milagrosa. More... |
Author : Rafael Sabatini
Narrated By : Colonial Radio Theatre
Published By : Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air
Duration : 30 minutes
Categories : Audio Theater
Drama
Dramatizations
Action & Adventure
Historical
Price : $1.50
Blood poses as a liberated Spanish prisoner, as his captured ship is stopped off Hispaniola by a a Spanish Galleon. More... |
Author : Lindsey Davis
Narrated By : Anton Lesser
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Duration : 3 hours
Categories : Historical
Detective
Drama
British
Price : $22.25
Venus in Copper finds our hero being hired by a family of rich freed slaves to investigate Severina Zotica, a widow whose previous three husbands have mysteriously died... More...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography
Biographical
Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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