A radio comedy aptly described as "a gloriously daft Victorian romp in the style of Charles Dickens after too much gin".

The sitcom follows the remarkable adventures of young Sir Philip 'Pip' Bin as he struggles to rescue himself and his sisters from the schemes of his evil and ironically-named guardian Mr Gently Benevolent.

Volume 2 of the comic Victorian epic tells of the further extraordinary adventures of Pip Bin and his trusty friend Harry Biscuit as they battle against the evil Mr Gently Benevolent, returned from the dead specifically to destroy all that is good and pure and true. Wince at the cruel vengeance of the Sternbeater cousins! Weep at the squalor of the opium den! Wonder at the engineering of the world's first beef and pastry railway!

In the latest series, all seems well in the life of Pip Bin. His evil guardian Mr Gently Benevolent has been killed again and he has found true love with his wife Ripely and true happiness with his beloved family and friends. Everything is properly splendid, and surely for the duration of Series 3 it will continue that way, won't it? No! Because in a ghastly incident at a seance the spirit of the evil Mr Benevolent reappears to wreak more havoc on everything that is noble, Victorian and English!

Our Review: Absolutely fantastic! This is a highly entertaining sitcom - in fact, Bleak Expectations has quickly become one of our all-time favourite radio comedies. It's a modern classic in the making.

The comedy is exquisitely performed by all involved: Tom Allen as carefully enunciated Young Pip, James Bachman as the over-enthusiastic and 'over-stupid' Harry, and Anthony Head as evil Mr Gently Benevolent are our personal favourites.

However, it is Mark Evans' writing that is the reason this sitcom stands-out as something rather special. It's very hard to describe style of the comedy, in fact you'd be best to listen to an episode to understand what the word play is like, because we're never going to be able to do it justice in this review.

Suffice to say the bizarre and surreal Victorian world that Evans' vividly paints through his scripts makes for a magical and highly entertaining sitcom that you just must not miss.