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COMEDY & QUIZZES

11 September 2008

Thursday 11 September 2008 18:30-19:00 (Radio 4 FM)


Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans.

Pip Bin struggles against the cruel plotting of his evil guardian Mr Gently Benevolent, recently returned from the dead.

Chapter the Last: A Happy Life Broken and then Mended a Bit.

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?

Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson
Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head
Sternbeater ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Young Pip ...... Tom Allen
Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman
Ripely Fecund ...... Sarah Hadland
Mr Parsimonious ...... Laurence Howarth
Pippa ...... Susy Kane
Sundry learned gentlemen ...... Mark Evans.

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