The Casebook Of Max And Ivan

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The Casebook of Max and Ivan

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Sitcom written by Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez about private detectives for hire.

Sitcom written by and starring Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez about private detectives for hire.

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The Casebook of Max and Ivan: Case #524 - New Year's Evil

Case #524 - New Year's Evil

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Max and Ivan investigate fearsome criminal matriarch Mama Shanks (Katherine Parkinson).

Incompetent private detectives Max and Ivan infiltrate a New Year’s Eve party to investigate fearsome crime family matriarch Mama Shanks. With special guest Katherine Parkinson.

Acclaimed double-act Max and Ivan return one last time as incompetent private detectives for hire.

It’s New Year’s Eve, but any plans for celebration are put on ice as Max and Ivan are tasked with investigating fearsome crime family matriarch, Mama Shanks - played by special guest Katherine Parkinson.

Word on the street is that she has something big planned for this very evening but, in a plot that takes in vaping, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and 10,000 bees, can Max and Ivan find out what it going down before it is too late?

Cast:
Max ..... Max Olesker
Ivan ..... Ivan Gonzalez
Martha Shanks ..... Katherine Parkinson
Narrator / Malcolm McMichaelmas ..... Lewis MacLeod
Lumpy ..... Jessica Ransom
PC Gribble ..... David Reed

Written by Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez
Original music by Huw Olesker and Samuel H James
Developed by John Stanley Productions
Produced by Ben Walker
A Hare and Tortoise production for BBC Radio 4

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