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Comedy Victorian adventures by Mark Evans

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Mark Evans

Richard Johnson

Tom Allen

Anthony Head

James Bachman

Geoffrey Whitehead

Sarah Hadland

Susy Kane

Gareth Edwards

Bleak Expectations: Series 5: Episode 1: A Pleasant Yet Dull Life Re-Evilled

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Episode 1: A Pleasant Yet Dull Life Re-Evilled

Series 5

A Pleasant Yet Dull Life Re-Evilled

BBC Radio 4 - Bleak Expectations, Series 5, A Pleasant Yet Dull Life Re-Evilled

Pip Bin is beginning to miss the conflict with absent evil nemesis Mr Gently Benevolent.

Pip receives an intriguing invitation to a house party. Mark Evans' Victorian comic epic stars Tom Allen. From November 2012.

Pip Bin is beginning to miss the conflict with his absent evil nemesis Mr Gently Benevolent.

Then he receives an intriguing invitation to a house party with Britain's poshest man, the Baron-Viscount-Marqu-earl-et the Lord-Dukey Clampvulture of Too-Many Titles. 

But one of the other guests may not be all he seems....

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
Clampvulture    ......    Geoffrey Whitehead
Ripely    ......    Sarah Hadland
Pippa    ......    Susy Kane
General Kartoffel-Kopf    ......    Mark Evans

Producer: Gareth Edwards.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012.

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