Episode 20, Evaline an Improvised Radio Play by Kate Herbert, recorded 11 Oct, 2020

In Episode 20, Evvie, Hills, Gad and Millicent, with newcomer Andy the Dandy, search Banderson’s London flat and find the spoils of his malfeasance and some useful evidence.

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Evaline is my totally improvised radio play set in London in 1923. I play all characters alone, unrehearsed and unedited. After the first few episodes, I thought about who could be in the next ep and what might happen, but that was all the prep I did.

Oh, except for the research I did into London in 1923 and the Gentlemen's Clubs of London. In two eps, I found a song by Noel Coward that I could play in the Darling Buds Gentlemen's Club. 

 

Often, the character and story went off in a direction I was not expecting. It's fun when characters have their own minds.

Characters in Evaline

Evaline, or Evvie to her friends and family, is young, silly, privileged and fearless. She drives an emerald green sports car like a maniac. 

Other characters in this episode are:

Hillary ‘Hills’ Appleby - 25ish. A toff sent down from Oxford.

Hon (Mrs) Matilda Appleby -80s Hills' wealthy Great Aunt.

Banderson- Matilda Appleby's Butler.

Chantel the Chanteuse - Tivoli Showgirl, Hills’ Cockney girlfriend.

Ernest Pankhurst – Evvie’s Great Uncle.

Mrs Fossicker - Ernest Pankhurst’s housekeeper.

Harry – Ernest Pankhurst’s Chauffeur.

Daisy Trudgeon – Ernest Pankhurst’s Maid.

Binky – Evvie’s brother- (real name Harley Fotheringay Pankhurst – was up at Oxford with Hilary.

Inspector Sidebottom

Constable

Mr Smythe- the lawyer.

Buffer –(AKA Algernon Featherstonehaugh Fanshaw) Binky’s friend & Evvie’s purported fiancé.

Mr Smythe- the lawyer.

Gadabout /Gad- AKA Dermott (O’Brien) Cockney bolshy gay man

Great Aunt Millicent, AKA Lady Sandwich.

Barkson - Millicent's Butler.

Mrs Wilson – Alfred Wilson/Banderson’s mother

Patrick O'Brien - Gad's Irish father

Andy the Dandy – A wharfie friend of Gad’s

 

Appleby Manor -Matilda Appleby's stately home.

The Trees -Evvie’s Uncle’s home 3 miles away.

The Darling Buds - a Gentlemen's Club.