I must confess to being a bit of a fan of Paul Temple, though I have no memory of hearing any of the radio series before around twenty years ago. I think it does grow on you, although Temple himself can be a bit smug at times, which is hardly endearing.

Anton Karas’s theme to The Third Man was something I heard a long time before I’d seen the film. We may have had a record of it, I’m not sure, but I do remember my mum having the sheet music for The Harry Lime Theme, but arranged for the piano. It’s not an acoustic guitar, by the way, Anton Karas was a player of the zither. If you hang around in the 1950s for long enough you may encounter the Australian Shirley Abicair. She was another exponent of that instrument – I’m not sure what it was about the late 40s or early 50s that made them suddenly popular.