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Educated Evans by Edgar Wallace: Inside Information

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The 1920s tipster gets an unlikely helping hand from a self-righteous police inspector.

The skint 1920s tipster gets an unlikely helping hand from a self-righteous police inspector. Stars Roy Hudd. From 1996.

Skint horse tipster Evans gets an unlikely helping hand from a self-righteous police inspector. 

Roy Hudd stars as a self-styled "sporting authority" in 1920's Camden Town in London.

Edgar Wallace's humorous novel, first published in 1924.   

Dramatised in four parts by Richard Quick. 

Narrator …. Freddie Jones 
Educated Evans …. Roy Hudd
Inspector Pine …. Andrew Sachs
The Miller …. Michael Roberts
Mrs Rankin …. Pat Coombs 
Albert Shanks …. Simon Treves
Miss Mavis …. Elizabeth Mansfield
George Canfyn …. Charles Collingwood

Music by Philip Glassborow and Rick Cardinall.

Director: Dirk Maggs

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1996.

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