Bleak Expectations
Bleak Expectations is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series that premièred 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, and parodies several of their plot devices (such as cruel guardians, idyllic childhoods interrupted, lifelong friendships, earnest young people), whilst simultaneously tending toward a highly surreal humour 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.
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Bleak Expectations
Bleak Expectations is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series that premièred 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, and parodies several of their plot devices (such as cruel guardians, idyllic childhoods interrupted, lifelong friendships, earnest young people), whilst simultaneously tending toward a highly surreal humour 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.
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Mazurka from Three Characteristic Pieces by Edward Elgar
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2007-08-15
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Mazurka from Three Characteristic Pieces by Edward Elgar
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2007-08-29
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Full of self-loathing, Pip dri ...... er Abraham Bagel all he seems?
Harry Biscuit becomes evilly p ...... of antiquing in the Cotswolds.
In a parody of The War of the ...... ntion Pippa's goose sanctuary?
Mister Gently Benevolent unvei ...... get Pippa a Christmas present?
Pip Bin faces his most gruelli ...... show him a way to redemption?
Pip Bin strives to improve wor ...... don and sell it to the French?
Pip Bin, Harry Biscuit and Gen ...... parody of Great Expectations.
Pip and Charles Dickens engage ...... he greatest writer in Britain.
Pip and Harry find themselves ...... their bid to catch Benevolent.
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A Happy Life Broken and then Mended a Bit
A Horrible Life Un-ruined and then Re-ruinated a Lot
A Life Destroyed Then Repaired and Rehappied
A Life Sadly Smashed... Then Happily Restored A Bit
A Loved-Up Life Potentially Totally Annihilated
A Now Grim Life Yet More Grimified
A Now Tricky Life Woefully Miseried Up
A Now-Spoiled Life Smashed Some More
A Painful Life Further Re-Miserabled
A Re-Excited Life Made Distinctly Dangerous
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Bleak Expectations is a BBC Ra ...... tire Kind Hearts and Coronets.
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