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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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in July 1996.

30 minutes

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