BBC R4 Documentary - 'Sweet Tea And Cigarettes'
Presented by John Collis
Readings by Bob Sinfield
Directed by Julian Mairs
Broadcast July 29, 2004
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

'A Life Of Edgar Wallace'

Edgar Wallace was the most famous author of his day.
For a period one in four of all books sold in the UK was
written by him.  He wrote more than 130 novels. It is not
known how many films and TV shows were based on his
books. Germany alone has made more than seventy films.

He wrote 'The Four Just Men'. He scripted 'King Kong'.

Wallace died with prodigious debts. His continued book
sales were so large that Within two years of his death
the income from his estate cleared what he died owing ...

'An intellectual is someone who has found something
more interesting than sex.'
Edgar Wallace
.