Tue 23 Mar 2010
Adapted from an email from David Vineyard:
Don’t know how many of you care for this sort of thing, but if you check out the BBC7 site this week they are airing an eight part adaptation of the Paul Temple mystery Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case. Currently there are also adaptations of two of Agatha Christie’s Poirot’s, a new Biggles (starting Thursday), John Creasey’s The Toff and the Runaway Bride, and The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes.
Previously they’ve done Ashenden, Bulldog Drummond, The Scarecrow, and many more. They also have original crime programs and adaptations of more recent writers’ works.
The episodes run about thirty minutes and are full cast productions. Thought I’d give everyone a heads up.
The Gilbert Case finds Paul and wife Steve’s holiday plans interrupted when the father of a murdered girl asks him to try and clear the young man, Howard Gilbert, convicted of murdering her and facing the death sentence. “I know you, you enjoy sticking your neck out.”
Honestly there’s too much to listen to, but you can pick and choose the ones you really like, and they can be downloaded to an MP3 player or IPod as well.
March 24th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
BBC7 is great! Like you said, there’s really too much to listen to, but I’ve found that there’s always something worth tuning in for. I’ve fallen in love with the PAUL TEMPLE stories. In one of them, the sleuthing couple are shot at by a sniper, narrowly avoid being blown to bits by a time bomb, are driven into a river, are kidnapped and threatened, and generally have tough time of it. It would be hilarious if, just once, Steve told her husband “Just for once, let’s NOT get involved.”
March 24th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Paul Temple would have been well matched with Pam North in his penchant for finding bodies and trouble — and he and Steve imbibed almost as many martini’s as the North’s too. Come to think of it, no wonder the Temple, North, Charles, Justus, Duluth, Blake, and Troy marriages held together so long. They were all too looped to know they were in danger.