1. The Fergusons

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On a flight home from New York, Paul Temple and Steve meet the Fergusons, who are flying to England to visit their student son Richard at Oxford University. Landing at the airport, they learn he's been shot - dead. But there are only two clues... Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. Paul Temple …. Peter Coke Steve …. Marjorie Westbury Robert Ferguson …. John Glen Helen Ferguson …. Grizelda Hervey Dinah Nelson …. Valerie Kirkbright Sir Graham Forbes …. James Thomason Reggie Mackintosh …. Simon Lack Red Harris …. John Baddeley Simo …. William Fox Police Sergeant …. Frederick Treves From 1938 to 1969, the crime fiction novelist and amateur detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case. They inhabit a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where women are chic and men wear cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needs Paul's help with his latest tricky case. Producer: Martyn C. Webster First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1963.