Such panache and animation, such lively scripts and exciting photography… makes you pleased you succumbed to the lure of television” The Times Trevor Eve stars as radio “Private Ear” Eddie Shoestring in the massively successful BAFTA-Nominated BBC drama series. Shoestring became one of the most popular British private detective shows of all time, with Trevour Eve playing the dishevelled radio detective Eddie Shoestring. Eddie is an unconventional and unlikely private eye. In fact, with his own phone-in radio show, he’s more like a troubleshooting private ear. His scruffy clothes, shaggy hairstyle and off-centre view of life offer him a clever and deceptive camouflage when he’s on the crime-solving trail.