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News of Paul Temple (BBC Audio) [Audiobook] (Audio CD)

by Francis Durbridge (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd (13 Nov 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1405676965
  • ISBN-13: 978-1405676960
  • Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 12.4 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 21,773 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Paul Temple meets Iris Archer at a cocktail party, and agrees to write a play for the vivacious actress. So he is most surprised when she suddenly decides to pull out of the lead role days before the play is due to open. He is even more surprised when he glimpses her in the Scottish hotel where the Temples are holidaying - after she had told him that she was going to the South of France. Does her sudden appearance have anything to do with the mysterious letter passed to Paul Temple by an excitable young man, with explicit instructions to deliver it to John Richmond? What does the enigmatic Doctor Steiner have to do with events? And, most importantly, who is operating under the codename Z4? It is up to Paul Temple to find out...Anthony Head brings the great radio detective to life in this new reading of Francis Durbridge's classic novel.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Another Cracking Tale of Paul Temple, 28 Nov 2008
By Mrs. K. E. Grimmond - See all my reviews
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Another classic installment from the Paul Temple series expertly read by Anthony Head. There are the usual tense moments - car crashes, getting trapped in a room flooding with water and the story (as usual!) kept me guessing who the villain of the piece was, right until the last moment. A 'must-have' for all Temple fans out there, young and old! Enjoy :-)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars So good I had to make a diversion to finish listening to it!, 6 Jun 2009
By E. Heckingbottom "elaineheck143" (U.K.) - See all my reviews
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I was making a fairly long journey in the car today, and finally remembered to take the CD with me. I was totally engrossed - not so much that I drove dangerously; but enough that I needed to add another half hour to my journey ... just so that I could complete the story and find out 'whodunnit'!

The plot was intriguing, with a great many twists and turns; and yet it was not particularly confusing. It didn't need a lot of concentration to follow the story. A number of red herrings were throw in to add intrigue to the story.

Although it was first written many years ago, the plot is not terribly dated, and will appeal to anyone who enjoys Agatha Christie; George Gently; Wickford etc. It is very well written, and the characters are beautifully drawn. It is also extremely well read by the talented Anthony Head, who uses a range of accents with pleasing effect.

I will be picking up a couple more CDs from this series to enliven any long, boring journeys ahead!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Send for News of Paul Temple, 5 Jan 2009
By Andromeda Descendent (Tarn Vedra) - See all my reviews
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I'd never heard of Paul Temple before, but there are too few detectives from this time period that I do know, so after finding out that Anthony Head was reading it (as well as being a great actor, I also know him to be a superb narrator), I eagerly gave it a go.

To say it's old fashioned would be to miss the point, as the story is contemporary to its 1930s setting, but Agatha Christie stories are old fashioned too and just as this forms a large part of the charm for Poirot, so it does with Paul Temple and Francis Durbridge's other characters. The only thing that grated on me was the "by Timothy!" exclamations and some similar unnatural dialogue of the type you only get in old films and less old spoofs. Quite unlike Agatha Christie books however, the plot of "News of Paul Temple" is pleasingly concise in its pool of possible suspects. You can listen to this audiobook on a long trip without getting too confused - it's not taxing stuff, and that's in its favour because with an audiobook it's much more hassle to rewind and hear plot points again than it is with the paper version.

I must admit, I've never heard of a woman being called Steve before - was this common in the 1930s? Steve's role is that of the dutiful wife in whom Temple can confide (every fictional detective needs a confidant) but she doesn't flinch from danger or need to be wrapped in cotton wool, and I interpreted more of her character from this than from her actual dialogue. Where a modern author may have made her a more equal character to her husband, Francis Durbridge can be forgiven on the basis that the gender balance of important characters, in this story at least, is more or less 50:50.

The novel is abridged, and that's good because it keeps running time to a reasonable length, but I think I would have preferred it to have been abridged a bit more so as to allow room for Anthony Head to take a breath every now and then. At times he does seem to be very consciously reading against the clock. But it takes a good actor to pull off an audiobook convincingly, and AH manages to make every character sound different and certainly imbues the dated phraseology within the book with an immediacy that makes it sound a lot less dusty than it might have done in a lesser narrator's hands.

Although I didn't find the central mystery too taxing, I enjoyed the story a lot more than I initially expected, and I would happily sit through another. Audiobooks cost a lot more than regular books though, so perhaps next time there's a sale on.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Lovely reading of an average story
I got this CD partly because I am a big fan of Anthony Head, and fancied hearing him read an audio book. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Miss

5.0 out of 5 stars Listen very carefully...
As a fan of audio books and detective stories I was delighted to see that the BBC have revived this venerable radio series featuring the suave amateur detective and crime writer... Read more
Published 24 days ago by Binro The Heretic

5.0 out of 5 stars Original and compelling
This is an excellent audiobook. It holds suspense to the last and is compelling largely by virtue of the atmosphere it succeeds in generating. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Paul Madge

5.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyably old-fashioned tale
As a connoisseur of the mystery genre, I have long been a fan of the great golden-age detectives- such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercules Poirot, Miss Marple, Father Brown, Hetty... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Wayne Redhart

4.0 out of 5 stars Cracking once it gets going
I am new to Paul Temple but the fact the Anthony Head was involved in this (as it turned out) little gem was the thing that swung it for me to give it a go and I am really glad... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Jimbo

4.0 out of 5 stars Slow starter but a great book
Although I usually find that my attention starts to wander when I'm listening to audiobooks, I gave this a go because as a 1950s detective novel, it intrigued me. Read more
Published 5 months ago by sf20

4.0 out of 5 stars ...a pleasant and diverting new experience...
My first time with an audio book after poo-poohing the idea for many a long year. To be fair, it took me a wee while to get into it, as I hadn't had anyone read to me since I was... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. H

4.0 out of 5 stars Adventure in Scotland
Paul Temple has written a play for actress Iris Archer and is rather peeved when she walks out on it shortly before the opening night with an apparently spurious excuse. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Damaskcat

4.0 out of 5 stars 'News of Paul Temple'
Although I prefer the full cast presentations of Paul Temple cases, Anthony Head is excellent with his reading. He manages to change his voice very well to suit the character. Read more
Published 5 months ago by RedKen1

3.0 out of 5 stars An old-fashioned detective story
News of Paul Temple (BBC Audio) I confess, my main reason for picking this product to listen to was that it's read by Anthony Stewart Head. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Michele Fry

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