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Comedy: Spoof

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: A Loved-Up Life Potentially Totally Annihilated

A Loved-Up Life Potentially Totally Annihilated

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Mister Gently Benevolent unveils an advent calendar of evil culminating on Christmas Day.

Mister Gently Benevolent unveils an evil advent calendar. Mark Evans' Victorian comic epic stars Tom Allen. From December 2012.

The inappropriately-named arbiter of all evil Mister Gently Benevolent unveils an advent calendar of evil that will culminate on Christmas day with the total destruction of the universe. 

Only one man can prevent the end of everything for all time. But at a terrible terrible cost. 

Is this the end for our hero Pip? Or is it curtains for the whole of creation? And does that mean Harry needn't get Pippa a Christmas present?

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
Servewell    ......    James Bachman
Clampvulture    ......    Geoffrey Whitehead
Ripely    ......    Sarah Hadland
Lily    ......    Sarah Hadland
Pippa    ......    Susy Kane
The Ghost of Christmice    ......    Mark Evans

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2012.

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