Bleak Expectations

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Comedy Victorian adventures by Mark Evans

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Bleak Expectations: Series 3: A Sort of Fine Life De-Niced Completely

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Pip wants to save the poor and Harry Biscuit wants swans.

Pip wants to save the poor and Harry Biscuit wants swans. Mark Evans's Dickensian spoof starring Tom Allen. From 2009.

Pip Bin strives to improve working conditions in his bin factory. 

But will his quest distract him from a dastardly plan to steal London and sell it to the French?

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

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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