Bleak Expectations

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Bleak Expectations: Series 3: An Evil Life Sort of Explained

An Evil Life Sort of Explained

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Floating in the most peculiar way, Harry and Pip hear Gently Benevolent's life story.

Floating in the most peculiar way, Harry and Pip hear Gently Benevolent's life story. Stars Tom Allen. From November 2009.

Pip Bin, Harry Biscuit and Gently Benevolent find themselves trapped in the vast emptiness of space. 

As their doom looks increasingly inevitable, Mr Benevolent finally explains just why it is that he is so very very evil.

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
Lovely Benevolent ...... Jane Asher
Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman
Hardthrasher/Sternbeater/Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Miss Christmasham ...... Sarah Hadland
Miss Sweetly Delightful ...... Raquel Cassidy.

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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