BLEAK EXPECTATIONS SERIES THREE

THE OFFICIAL SITE OF ANTHONY HEAD

Bleak Expectations: Series Three
Radio Series (UK)
Role: Mr. Gently Benevolent
Episodes: All
Original Air Date: October 29th, 2009 - December 3rd, 2009
Network: BBC Radio 4
Bleak Expectations on Audio CD

The epic Victorian comedy series written by Mark Evans is back with more of the remarkable adventures of Pip Bin. He battles his evil ex-guardian Mr Gently Benevolent in six more chapters of plots, disguises, inventions, escapes, tragedies and triumphs in the style of Charles Dickens after a drop too much gin.

The third series begins several years after the death – for the second time – of Mr Benevolent. All seems well as Pip Bin enjoys fame and wealth for his hugely popular invention, the bin, until...

• EPISODE 1

A Lovely Life Re-Kippered Again Once More, features a séance with Britain's shortest, fattest spiritualist, Small Medium Large – and the return from the dead of Mr Benevolent, who possesses a pigeon and sets out to frame Pip for murder. This brings him to the attention of Inspector Whackwallop of Scotland Yard and his Victorian crime-fighting tools, including state-of-the-art security paintings and the forensic science of bottom prints.

Richard Johnson, Anthony Head, and Geoffrey Whitehead lead a magnificent cast including Tom Allen, James Bachman, Sarah Hadland, Susie Kane and Mark Evans. Also guest starring in this series are Raquel Cassidy as Miss Sweetly Delightful and Jane Asher as Mr Gently Benevolent's evil mother.

• EPISODE 2

A Now Grim Life Yet More Grimified - Pip Bin faces his most gruelling fate yet at the hands of his evil undead ex-guardian and an enormous quantity of cheese. But can the spirits of Harvest Festival past, present and future show him a way to redemption? With Richard Johnson, Tom Allen, Anthony Head, James Bachman.

• EPISODE 3

A Sort of Fine Life De-Niced Completely - Pip Bin strives to improve working conditions in his Bin factory, and to end poverty once and for all using Harry Biscuit's anti-poverty cannon. But will his quest distract him from a dastardly plan to steal London and sell it to the French?

• EPISODE 4

A Horrible Life Un-Ruined And Then Re-Ruined A Lot - Pip, Harry, Pippa and Ripely are reduced to abject poverty on the banks of the Thames. Will Pip and Harry be able to find work, or will they have to end their days eating mud and listening to the gloating of Mr Benevolent?

• EPISODE 5

An Evil Life Sort of Explained - 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.

• EPISODE 6

Lives Lost, Ruined, Wrecked and Redeemed - 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.

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