Episode 8 - Evaline an Improvised Radio Play by Kate Herbert, recorded 25 April 2020

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.

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In Ep 8, Evvie, Binky & Chantel visit a London Gentleman's Club in St James district where they find Buffer, Hills, who Evvie suspects of murdering his Aunt, and Mr Smythe, Aunt Matilda's lawyer .

 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  - 25is. 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

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

Mr Smythe- the lawyer.

 

Appleby Manor -Matilda Appleby's stately home.

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