Bleak Expectations

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Comedy Victorian adventures by Mark Evans

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Gareth Edwards

Bleak Expectations: Series 4: A Life Destroyed Then Repaired and Rehappied

A Life Destroyed Then Repaired and Rehappied

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Our hero Pip faces his nemesis Mister Benevolent for an epic Russian battle.

Pip faces his nemesis for an epic Russian battle. Mark Evans' Victorian comic epic stars Tom Allen. From December 2010.

Pip in the company of Pippa, the Reverend Fecund and Harry Biscuit, now just a brain in a jar, have tracked Mister Benevolent to the heart of the vast Russian Empire. 

But when they find him, he is at the head of a mighty army. 

Who will triumph in the final battle between good and evil? Will Harry get a new body? Will Mister Benevolent detonate his infamous cheese bomb? And what is the correct way to spell Czar?

As fate decides these crucial questions it seems there are a few surprises in store for Pip.

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
Reverend Godly Fecund ..... David Mitchell

Producer: Gareth Edwards.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 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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