Bleak Expectations

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Bleak Expectations: Series 3: Lives Lost, Ruined, Wrecked and Redeemed

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Can Pip and Ripely save the nation or will Mr Benevolent get his evil way?

Can Pip and Ripely save the nation or will Mr Benevolent get his evil way? Starring Anthony Head. From December 2009.

Pip and Ripely find themselves facing a vast and evil undead army. 

England has only one hope - that Miss Sweetly Delightful can melt Mr Benevolent's cruel, undead heart. 

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
Bishop Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Ripely Bin ...... Sarah Hadland
Miss Sweetly Delightful ...... Raquel Cassidy
The Duke of Chelsea ...... Mark Evans

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 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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