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- Bleak Expectations is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series that premiered in August 2007. It is a pastiche of the works of Charles Dickens – such as Bleak House and Great Expectations, from which it derives its name – as well as adventure, science fiction and costume dramas set in the same period. Bleak Expectations parodies several of their plot devices whilst simultaneously tending toward a surreal humor along the lines of The Goon Show. The series has also demonstrated a fondness for allusions to and parodies of the films of Alec Guinness, particularly the Edwardian satire Kind Hearts and Coronets. It is written by Mark Evans, who plays minor characters in most episodes, and produced by Gareth Edwards. Its opening and closing theme is the main theme from the Mazurka from Three Characteristic Pieces by Edward Elgar. The plot revolves around Philip "Pip" Bin, inventor of the bin, and his various fantastic adventures as he attempts to thwart the machinations of his evil ex-guardian, Mr. Gently Benevolent. It is narrated by Pip as an old man to the journalist (and his eventual son-in-law) Sourquill, who brings various useless inventions to assist in recording the events. (en)
- Bleak Expectations is een Britse sitcom op BBC Radio 4, geschreven door , die er ook zelf in meespeelt, en uitgezonden vanaf 15 augustus 2007. Er werden twee reeksen van elk zes afleveringen van gemaakt. (nl)
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- Pip finds himself saved from the workhouse with the arrival of a vast sum of money from a stranger. But new problems await him. (en)
- Pip, Pippa, the Reverend Fecund and Harry Biscuit have tracked Mister Benevolent to the heart of the vast Russian Empire. But when they find him he is at the head of a mighty army. Who will triumph in the final battle between good and evil? Will Harry get a new body? Will Mister Benevolent detonate his infamous cheese bomb? And what is the correct way to spell 'Tsar'? As fate decides these crucial questions it seems there are a few surprises in store for Pip. (en)
- Pip must thwart the plans of his evil guardian Mr Gently Benevolent. Can underwater squirrels, oddly-placed church bells and a stint in the workhouse foil him in his noble quest? Or will Aunt Lily and her Gloucestershire racing cows save the day? (en)
- Harry Biscuit becomes evilly possessed after using the Possessed Pen of Penrith, which turns his heart to inky black. Pip and Gently Benevolent join forces to take on this new, cruel and cake-obsessed nemesis and his army of robot swans. They also turn out to share a love of antiquing in the Cotswolds. (en)
- 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? (en)
- 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? (en)
- Mister Gently Benevolent unveils an advent calendar of evil that will culminate on Christmas Day with the total destruction of the universe. Only one man can prevent the end of everything for all time. But at a terrible terrible cost. Is this the end for our hero Pip? Or is it curtains for the whole of creation? And does that mean Harry needn't get Pippa a Christmas present? (en)
- 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. (en)
- 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. (en)
- After an embarrassing disaster involving a bridge and a train full of puppies and orphans, Pip and Harry travel to America on the SS Massive Britain, where Pip begins a reading tour. But all is not as it seems and Mister Benevolent lures our hero into a gunfight at the "All Right I Suppose Corral". (en)
- Pip and Harry journey to the Underworld to rescue Ripely, only to find the evil Mister Benevolent has got there first. (en)
- In a parody of The War of the Worlds, the planet is in deadly peril when Gently Benevolent summons a massive Martian invasion. Is this the end for Pip, Harry and the rest of the human race, not to mention Pippa's goose sanctuary? (en)
- 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? (en)
- Pip and Harry find themselves building an entire railway network in their bid to catch Benevolent. (en)
- Pip is saved from the wreck of Admiral Hardthrasher's vessel by Aunt Lily on a raft of trained tuna. He returns to London, to find true love with the beautiful but terminally feeble Flora Dies-Early. Pippa and Mr Parsimonious flee to the continent, with Mr Benevolent in pursuit, but his nefarious attempts against them are thwarted by Aunt Lily. Harry, meanwhile, tries to join the army to forget his love for Pippa, but is thwarted by an allergy to the colour red. (en)
- 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 - it is thanks to thwarted love, his stepfathers' cruelty and a family ancestry reaching back to Judas' accountant, in a parody of Great Expectations. (en)
- Things look grim for Pip as he faces a highly prejudicial court case to defend his masterful and eponymous invention, the Bin. Is he to be hanged, or will there be a last-minute escape? (en)
- Pip finds himself heavily in debt when he has to bribe the whole of the House of Commons. (en)
- Pip and Charles Dickens engage in a novel-writing showdown to find out who is the greatest writer in Britain. (en)
- Pip meets a mysterious aged crone who can help him escape from Britain's most terrifying school, with only a false beard and disguises of Admiral Nelson, a giant rabbit and a grandfather clock. But can they stop his evil guardian marrying his mother? (en)
- Full of self-loathing, Pip drinks some very strong gin, finds he is really quite keen on opium, and falls in with a gang of thieves. But is their Fagin-like leader Abraham Bagel all he seems? (en)
- Pip races to Antarctica to thwart another fiendish plot by his evil ex-guardian, Mr Gently Benevolent. (en)
- Pippa is lost so Harry makes a "Pippa Detector" which actually works! Sort of. (en)
- Pip and his friends travel to India in their quest to thwart the evil machinations of smooth but sinister genius Mr Gently Benevolent. (en)
- Pip and Harry put to sea with Captain Beehab in a bid to thwart a sea-going Mister Benevolent and rescue Ripely. But fate has other plans and they are shipwrecked. Pip soon finds himself on a desert island that holds many surprising secrets. (en)
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- The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (en)
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- A Life Sadly Smashed... Then Happily Restored A Bit (en)
- A Happy Life Broken and then Mended a Bit (en)
- A Life Destroyed Then Repaired and Rehappied (en)
- A Loved-Up Life Potentially Totally Annihilated (en)
- A Now Grim Life Yet More Grimified (en)
- A Now Tricky Life Woefully Miseried Up (en)
- A Now-Spoiled Life Smashed Some More (en)
- A Painful Life Further Re-Miserabled (en)
- A Re-Excited Life Made Distinctly Dangerous (en)
- A Re-Kippered Life Smashed Some More (en)
- A Recovery All Made Miserable (en)
- A Restoration Re-ruined, Only Even Worse (en)
- A Sort of Fine Life De-niced Completely (en)
- A Wretched Life Made Much, Much Sadder (en)
- A Writerly Life Made Dreadfully Different (en)
- A Young Adulthood Bitterly Dismantled (en)
- A Young Love Mercilessly Dismembered (en)
- A Youth Utterly Crocked (en)
- An Adolescence Utterly Trashed (en)
- An Alrightish Life Savagely Frozen to Bits (en)
- An Evil Life Sort of Explained (en)
- Lives Lost, Ruined, Wrecked and Redeemed (en)
- A Horrible Life Un-ruined and then Re-ruinated a Lot (en)
- An Already Bad Life Made Worse but Sort of on Purpose (en)
- A Terrifying Life Made Even Scarier a Bit Some More (en)
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- Bleak Expectations is een Britse sitcom op BBC Radio 4, geschreven door , die er ook zelf in meespeelt, en uitgezonden vanaf 15 augustus 2007. Er werden twee reeksen van elk zes afleveringen van gemaakt. (nl)
- Bleak Expectations is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series that premiered in August 2007. It is a pastiche of the works of Charles Dickens – such as Bleak House and Great Expectations, from which it derives its name – as well as adventure, science fiction and costume dramas set in the same period. Bleak Expectations parodies several of their plot devices whilst simultaneously tending toward a surreal humor along the lines of The Goon Show. The series has also demonstrated a fondness for allusions to and parodies of the films of Alec Guinness, particularly the Edwardian satire Kind Hearts and Coronets. (en)
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- Bleak Expectations (nl)
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