Radio play. — BBC audio book, 1942 record. — Duration 02:20:00.
Francis Henry Durbridge (1912–1998) was an English playwright and author. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School in Yorkshire where he was encouraged to write by his English teacher. He continued to do so whilst studying English at Birmingham University. After graduating in 1933, he worked for a short time as a stockbroker's clerk, before selling a radio play, called Promotion to the BBC at the age of 21.
In 1938, he created the character Paul Temple, a crime novelist and detective. With Steve Trent, a Fleet Street journalist and later his wife, Temple solved numerous crimes in the glamorous world of the leisured middle-classes, first on radio, then films and from 1969 until 1971 in a television series. In addition to Paul Temple, Durbridge wrote other mysteries for radio and television, many of which were also produced for German television and radio. In addition to his TV and radio work, Durbridge forged a successful career as a writer for the stage, with seven plays, the last of which, Sweet Revenge, was written in 1991. He also wrote 43 novels, many of which were adapted from his scripts, sometimes with the help of others.