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The epic Victorian comedy is back with more of the remarkable adventures of Pip Bin as he battles his evil ex-guardian Mr Gently Benevolent (Anthony Head) in six more chapters of tragedies and triumphs in the style of Charles Dickens after too much gin. Mark Evans, Richard Johnson, Tom Allen, Anthony Head and Geoffrey Whitehead lead a magnificent cast including James Bachman, Sarah Hadland and Susy Kane, as well as guest star David Mitchell as the Rev Godly Fecund. Series Four begins with Pip, who must enlist the help of his former nemesis to fight a new evil spreading terror and cake-crumbs through the streets of London. "Bleak Expectations" is written by Mark Evans and produced by Gareth Edwards, whose other collaborations include "That Mitchell and Webb Sound" and "That Mitchell and Webb Look". This title contains all six episodes from the fourth BBC Radio 4 series. "A freshly minted comedy classic". ("Guardian").
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Not sure if I am missing something here but I still found the fourth series as ridiculous as the previous three - so what if after 18 episodes some of the antics start repeating a wee bit, it still is one of the best series to have graced the airways - well acted and still retains a great deal of warmth emanating from the characters. If you have enjoyed the series so far I can't see any reason why you should not splash out and enjoy another - and probably final - lashing of surreal, ridiculous story telling.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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As the lack of reviews and an unfair one star grading from a previous reviewer has the stars skewed down to three I thought I better put in a quick correction to try to get the star ratings back up (using my patented, swan powered, ratings correction device). Series 1 - 3 all have close to five stars from a wider range of reviewers averaged out, which is quite an achievement, but fair because it is very, very good. So series 4 with only 3 stars doesn't look right. My family (five of us age range 9 to 47) found it as funny as the previous three series so are obvously tickled by different things to the one star reviewer, (who is possibly still aggreived by Mr Benevolent's failure to fly London to France?). I can see the levels of surrealism and farce may be too much for some but I can't see how it can be claimed the drop in quality is so vast.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A great show funny and silly but laugh out loud a joy perhaps not overly clever in some peoples view but to me and my family a great laugh.
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Fourth run - and still going strong. Funny and as absurd as ever!
Seriously absurd and absolutely hilarious. We start the series with a great subversion - evil Mr Gently Benevolent... has become GOOD! Read more
Published 9 months ago by Brenig
If you loved series one to three, you won't love this...
My brother, father and I are all huge Bleak Expectations fans and loved the previous three series. However, we all can't help but come to the conclusion that this series is not... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Madamoiselle
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