Bleak Expectations

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Bleak Expectations: Series 2: A Recovery All Made Miserable

A Recovery All Made Miserable

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Poorly Pip faces rural poverty and a mystery nurse. Mark Evans's Dickensian spoof.

Poorly Pip faces rural poverty and a mystery nurse. Mark Evans's Dickensian spoof stars Anthony Head. From August 2008.

The thrilling Victorian comic epic sees young Pip nursed to health by the Reverend Fecund and his daughter Ripely, but why must her face remain hidden? Witness the horrors the rural poor in the stricken parish of Poverty Saint Mary. 

But will Pip choose to fight against the injustice of it all in Parliament, where the walls are soaked in brandy, and so are the MPs, or will he follow his heart, just as soon as he can work out what it is saying to him. Meanwhile Harry has developed the steam powered Pippa detector. But will it work?

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

Volume Two, Chapter the Third: A Recovery All Made Miserable 

Sir Philip...........................Richard Johnson
Mr Benevolent/Sourquil............Anthony Head
Young Pip..................................Tom Allen
Reverend Godly Fecund..........David Mitchell
Sternbeater...................Geoffrey Whitehead
Harry Biscuit......................James Bachman
Ripely Fecund......................Sarah Hadland
Pippa........................................Susy Kane
Sundry MPs..............................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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