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Bleak Expectations: Series 3: A Now Grim Life Yet More Grimified

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Young Pip is betrayed and receives a spectral visitor.

Young Pip is betrayed and receives a spectral visitor. Mark Evans's Dickensian spoof. Stars Tom Allen. From November 2009.

Pip Bin faces his most gruelling fate yet at the hands of his evil undead ex-guardian and an enormous quantity of cheese. 

But can the spirits of Harvest Festival past, present and future show him a way to redemption?

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

Sir Philip Bin    ......    Richard Johnson
Gently Benevolent    ......    Anthony Head
Young Pip    ......    Tom Allen
Harry Biscuit    ......    James Bachman
Dr Wackwallop    ......    Geoffrey Whitehead
Ripely Fecund    ......    Sarah Hadland
Pippa    ......    Susy Kane
Other parts    ......    Mark Evans

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009.

Bleak Expectations: Series 3

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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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