Bleak Expectations

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Comedy Victorian adventures by Mark Evans

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Bleak Expectations: Series 4: A Painful Life Further Re-Miserabled

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Pip and Harry put to sea, but fate has other plans and they are shipwrecked.

Pip and Harry travel to a mysterious evil island. Mark Evans' Victorian comic epic stars Richard Johnson. From December 2010.

Pip and Harry put to sea with Captain Beehab in a bid to thwart a sea-going Mister Benevolent and rescue Ripely. 

But fate has other plans and they are shipwrecked. Pip soon finds himself on a desert island that holds many surprising secrets. 

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 December 2010.

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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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