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Pierce Egan tries sharing Tom, Bob and Jerry's adventures around town.

Rather than pawn himself, Pierce Egan tries sharing Tom, Bob and Jerry's adventures around town. Stars Greg Wise. From May 2006.

Pierce Egan is reduced to pawning himself. 

He talks his way out of this bind by relating the adventures of Tom, Bob and Jerry as they drink with the lower orders in the East End, dance with high society up West and attend a masquerade, where Jerry is smitten by a serial seductress...

Starring Greg Wise and Mark Gatiss.

Pierce Egan’s 19th-century comic novel adapted by Dan Tetsell.

Pierce Egan .... Geoffrey McGivern 
Corinthian Tom .... Greg Wise 
Pickpocket .... Neil Edmond 
Jerry Hawthorn .... Mark Gatiss

With  James Bachman,  Neil Edmond,  Morwenna Banks, Giles Taylor and Alys Torrance. 

Original music by Ben Walker

Producer: Tilusha Ghelani

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2006.

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