Paul Temple and the Alex Affair Episode 5 of 8 Mr Wilfred Davis Lathom is blackmailed and the sleuth stakes-out the drop-off - where a surprising figure collects the cash. Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes. From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1968. First broadcast 28 Oct 2008 (b007jrk0)