Bleak Expectations

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Bleak Expectations: Series 4: A Now Tricky Life Woefully Miseried Up

A Now Tricky Life Woefully Miseried Up

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Pip and Harry pursue Mister Benevolent to France, where a dark and pungent fate awaits.

Pip and Harry pursue the evil Mister Benevolent to France. Mark Evans' Victorian comic epic stars Tom Allen. From December 2010.

Pip and Harry have escaped the exploding desert island, but Harry has been transformed into a dinosaur. 

Now they must catch Mister Benevolent and prevent him taking over the world, but the trail has led them to France. 

Here they must face unimaginable horrors, including a bacon free breakfast and a deadly confrontation in a cheese mine. 

But there is a glimmer of hope in the form of The Scarlet Pimple. 

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 
Grimpunch ..... Geoffrey Whitehead 
Ripely ..... Sarah Hadland
Pippa ..... Susy Kane
Reverend Godly Fecund ..... David Mitchell
Frenchman ..... Mark Evans
 
Producer Gareth Edwards.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010.

Bleak Expectations: Series 4

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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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