Bleak Expectations

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Comedy Victorian adventures by Mark Evans

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In Mark Evans's Dickensian spoof, even death cannot prevent an old enemy from returning.

In Mark Evans's Dickensian spoof, even death cannot prevent an old enemy from returning. Stars Tom Allen. From October 2009.

Pip Bin's happiness is shattered once again. 

Fog-filled streets, murders, and apparitions abound, and through it all echoes the terrible, menacing coo of a possessed evil pigeon.

The return of Mark Evans's epic Victorian comedy pastiche in the style of Charles Dickens.

Sir Philip    ......    Richard Johnson
Young Pip    ......    Tom Allen
Gently Benevolent    ......    Anthony Head
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 October 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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