They were both born in
Bristol, and studied together at
Bristol Cathedral School. Together, they devised a routine of
impersonations, and won a talent contest in 1940, after which they appeared on
Jack Payne's
BBC radio show,
Your Company is Requested. They were called up for military service, and both served in the
Fleet Air Arm, but did not meet up again until they were both working as insurance clerks in 1948, and decided to revive their act. They appeared on
Variety Bandbox in 1949, and frequently on the BBC
Light Programme from then on. As well as performing their own routines, they acted as comperes on other shows. According to entertainment historian Richard Anthony Baker, "They were fast, they were sophisticated and they were unique. At the start of their act, they asked their audience to imagine two radio sets side by side. They then performed a sports commentary in complete unison, mimicking well-known sportsmen and commentators with deadly accuracy." In another routine, "speaking in unison, they presented their view of how radio might have sounded in the sixteenth century..". They performed together in the 1951
Royal Variety Performance and the film
London Entertains, and supported
Judy Garland at her shows at the
London Palladium, also in 1951. perhaps as a result of Evans' problems with alcohol. ==References==