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- Francis Durbridge (Author of Send for Paul Temple) - Goodreads
Francis Henry Durbridge was an English playwright and author...
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Francis Durbridge has 281 books on Goodreads with 7590...
- Francis Durbridge (Author of Send for Paul Temple) - Goodreads
Years active. 1933-1998. 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. [3]
Francis Henry Durbridge was an English playwright and author born in Hull. In 1938, he created the character Paul Temple for the BBC radio serial Send for Paul Temple. A crime novelist and detective, the gentlemanly Temple solved numerous crimes with the help of Steve Trent, a Fleet Street journalist who later became his wife.
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Francis Henry Durbridge (listen ⓘ; 25 November 1912 – 11 April 1998) [1] 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.
The Hull-born author and playwright was born in 1912 and died in 1998. His output was prodigious: I count at least 35 novels, 22 TV series, seven theatrical plays and around 30 radio plays and...
Francis Durbridge has 281 books on Goodreads with 7590 ratings. Francis Durbridge’s most popular book is Send for Paul Temple.
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Many of the BBC Paul Temple radio serials were novelised between 1938 and 1989 by Francis Durbridge working with collaborators from his original scripts. The first was Send for Paul Temple (1938) with John Thewes.
