The latest Phil Evans column from the South Wales Evening Post
The latest Phil Evans column from the South Wales Evening Post. Comedian Phil Evans is from Ammanford. He is known as the man who puts the ‘cwtsh’ into comedy. --------------------- When newsvendors plied their trade on street corners you could hear their cries of “Read all about it!” half a mile away. They were more concerned with selling their entire stock of ‘papers than being clearly understood and years of shouting had loosened their dentures. This led to their cry sounding more like “Rheeeda-awla-bhoww-tit!” In Swansea, one celebrated vendor sounded as is she was shouting ‘Beans on Toast’ as she constantly screamed out ‘Evening Post’. The truth is that customers would stop and buy a ‘paper so they could read all about the particular ‘It’ that was splashed across the front page. I don’t see newsvendors about these days, probably because in many cities around the U.K. (I’m allowed out of Wales occasionally for good behaviour) free newspapers are available on ‘buses and railway
