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News of Paul Temple (BBC Audio) by: Francis Durbridge List Price: £12.99 CD-Charts Price: £9.10 You Save: £3.89 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 9781405676960 Format: Audiobook ISBN: 1405676965 Label: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Manufacturer: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Publication Date: November 13, 2008 Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Studio: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Sales Rank: 4253 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - By Timothy!As a youngster I remember listening avidly to Paul Temple on the radio. I loved the strangeness of a wife called Steve and the fact that he never seemed to do any work except drive around in a sports car solving crimes and talking in a post voice. Well, has Paul Temple stood up to the test of time? In a word, no.... I have to agree that Anthony Head reads it magnificently (but did wonder how he managed to get through it without bursting out laughing). News of Paul Temple is very much a period piece. The plot has more holes than a colander and most of the characters are unbelievable. However, I can't say I didn't enjoy this blast from the past. It was fun while it lasted but didn't whet my appetite for more. Rating: - Very EnjoyableI never used to enjoy audio books. I always found that the portrayal by the actor(s) is never the way I picture them, and this plays on my mind throughout the story so I am unable to enjoy it. Lets just say that as time has gone by, my attitude is changing. And as my first audio book, this didn't disappoint me in the slightest. I found it gripping and highly enjoyable. Anthony Head does an admirable job telling the story, although I couldn't help but chuckle every time he performed a female character. The recording itself is extremely well done, and sounds fantastic. Just what you should expect from a BBC production. I think I will have to get the others now. Temple is just too tempting! Rating: - Send for News of Paul TempleI'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 ... Read More: Rating: - Light hearted enjoymentI've never listened or read any Paul Temple novels and picked this on a whim. It was quite addicitve although Paul Temple is a little bit of a know it all that might bug me after a while I did enjoy this audio cd. Read by Anthony Head who has a lovely voice to listen to. He managed to give each character their own voice so it was easy to follow. One thing I didn't get was the cd cover until after I had listened to the whole story then it made sense. If you like a good old fashioned period spy thriller this is definitely for you. Rating: - who is Z 4?Paul Temple. One time journalist, now successful crime writer and playwright. married to former colleague steve, he and his wife are also detectives. A hugely well known character in the crime fiction field once upon a time, paul temple appeared first on the radio in the 1930's, then in novels, and later on bbc tv. Not as well remembered now as he should be, as thanks to the regrettable old bbc policy of junking old programmes not a lot of his past exploits on radio and tv survive. but now, thanks to bbc audiobooks, some of the novels can be enjoyed once again in the form of talking books. This is an adbridged version of the novel news of paul temple. I've never read the original so I can't be sure how much had to be cut ... Read More: |
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