Bleak Expectations

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Comedy Victorian adventures by Mark Evans

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Bleak Expectations: Series 2: Episode 1: A Happy Life, Cruelly Re-kippered

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Episode 1: A Happy Life, Cruelly Re-kippered

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A Happy Life, Cruelly Re-kippered

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In Mark Evans's Dickensian spoof, Pip's exceedingly evil guardian causes school havoc.

In Mark Evans's Dickensian spoof, Pip's exceedingly evil guardian causes school havoc. Stars Richard Johnson. From August 2008.

The further remarkable adventures of Pip Bin, inventor of the bin, as he struggles against the cruel plotting of his evil guardian Mr Gently Benevolent, recently returned from the dead.
  
Mark Evans's epic comedy in the style of Charles Dickens after far too much gin. 
  
Volume Two, Chapter the First: A Happy Life, Cruelly Re-kippered

You're invited to bask in the kindness of St Lovely's school, with its classes of double Definitely-Not-Latin and its School Cakery. But what is that sinister presence lurking with a very large number of horses? Could it be that Mister Benevolent has plans to steal the school?

Sir Philip...........................Richard Johnson
Mr Benevolent.......................Anthony Head
Sternbeater...................Geoffrey Whitehead
Young Pip..................................Tom Allen
Harry Biscuit......................James Bachman
Lily.....................................Sarah Hadland
Mr Parsimonious...............Laurence Howarth
Pippa........................................Susy Kane
Sundry boys..............................Mark Evans

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2008.

Bleak Expectations: Series 2

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Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. Pip Bin struggles against the cruel plotting of his evil guardian Mr Gently Benevolent, recently returned from the dead

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