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Bleak Expectations: Series Two Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. |
| The cast also includes Laurence
Howarth as the fatally generous Mr Skinflint Parsimonious; Sarah Hadland as the chaste but
very frustrated Ripely Fecund; Susy Kane as Pip's charitable, goose-protecting sister,
Pippa; and Mark Evans as a variety of Victorian gentlemen and members of the lower orders.
Chapter Three includes guest star David Mitchell as the muscular, Methodist-hunting vicar
Mr Godly Fecund. ** |
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This is the second volume of Mark Evans's comic Victorian epic, in the style of Charles Dickens – after too much gin. Evil villain Mr Gently Benevolent is brought back from the dead by the terrifying Sternbeater family to destroy the life of young Pip Bin, inventor of the bin and one of the wealthiest young men in Britain. Six stirring chapters gallop through six different aspects of Victorian life as it really probably wasn't. Listeners can bask in the kindness of St Lovely's school, with its classes of double Definitely-Not-Latin and its School Cakery; marvel at the engineering genius of the early railways; and rage against the injustice of Parliament, where the walls are soaked in brandy – and so are the MPs. They must surely weep as Young Pip spirals into vast debt, undergoes a tragically unsuitable marriage to an evil man in a dress, and sinks into opium addiction amid the grimness of the Victorian East End and the thieving gang of Mr Abraham Bagel. And finally, they will cower before the terrifying spectacle of the Martian invasion, where only Pip and some geese stand between Mr Benevolent's army of long-eared purple space villains and all that is good and true. CD RELEASE INFORMATION A CD of series one was released in the UK on 3rd March, 2008, and is available to order from the BBC Shop *website and various online outlets. The series is also available to download from digital retailers. A BBC Audio CD of the second series was released in the UK on the 9th October, 2008. Copies can be ordered from the BBC Shop *website. |
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