Bleak Expectations

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Comedy Victorian adventures by Mark Evans

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Gareth Edwards

Bleak Expectations: Series 4: A Now Spoiled Life Smashed Some More

A Now Spoiled Life Smashed Some More

Series 4

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Pip and Harry try to rescue Ripely, only to find evil Mister Benevolent got there first.

Pip battles to rescue his wife from the underworld. Mark Evans' Victorian epic stars Richard Johnson. From November 2010.

Pip and Harry must journey to the Underworld to rescue Ripely.

But Mr Gently Benevolent has got there first and is planning to unleash the demons of Hell on the streets of London, making them even worse than usual. 

Meanwhile Ripely seems to be enjoying the company of some Greek Heroes a little too much.

Can Pip prevent a demon invasion of the streets of London? Can Harry win back the affections of his wife Pippa who has fallen for Benevolent's evil charms? 
Can anything be more terrifying the Clive the massive cake dragon? 

And will Mr Benevolent be in trouble with the Devil when she gets back from maternity leave?

Mark Evans's epic Victorian comedy in the style of Charles Dickens.

Sir Philip ..... Richard Johnson
Young Pip Bin ..... Tom Allen 
Gently Benevolent ..... Anthony Head 
Harry Biscuit ..... James Bachman 
Grimpunch ..... Geoffrey Whitehead 
Ripely ..... Sarah Hadland
Pippa ..... Susy Kane

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010.

Bleak Expectations: Series 4

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Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. Several years after the death, for the second time, of his evil guardian Mr Gently Benevolent, Pip Bin's happiness is shattered once again

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