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Case #524 - New Year's Evil

Max and Ivan crash a New Year party to investigate a fearsome crime family matriarch. With guest Katherine Parkinson. From 2019.

Acclaimed double-act Max and Ivan as the 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.

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?

Special guest Katherine Parkinson.

Written by Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez.

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

Original music by Huw Olesker and Samuel H James

Developed by John Stanley Productions.

Producer: Ben Walker.

A Hare and Tortoise production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2019.

28 minutes

Last on

Mon 30 Dec 202423:30
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