http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Evans_%28comedian/writer%29 Mark Evans is a Welsh comedy writer and actor. Evans was raised in Wrexham and read Classics at Cambridge University. He joined the Footlights, where he became president, and met writing partner James Bachman and also Robert Webb.After an unsuccessful stint as a stand-up comedian, he decided to switch to screenwriting. He wrote the popular BBC Radio 4 comedy series Bleak Expectations, the first series of which aired in 2007. It was adapted into a TV series in late 2011, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff. The fifth and last series aired in late 2012.On 6 May 2008, he and long-time writing partner James Bachman recorded the pilot of their BBC Radio 4 comedy Zoom, starring David Soul, Carla Mendonca, and Jon Glover, with a special guest appearance by Nicholas Parsons as himself. In November 2012, Constable & Robinson published Evans' novel based on Bleak Expectations.