Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

A Wretched Life Made Much, Much Sadder

Episode 3 of 6

Pip faces fresh dangers on a reading tour to New York. Mark Evans' Victorian comic epic stars Tom Allen. From November 2010.

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"

Mark Evans's epic Victorian comedy in the style of Charles Dickens.

Sir Philip ..... Richard Johnson
Young Pip Bin ..... Tom Allen
Gently Benevolent ..... Anthony Head
Harry Biscuit ..... James Bachman
Grimpunch ..... Geoffrey Whitehead
Ripely ..... Sarah Hadland
Pippa ..... Susy Kane

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in November 2010.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 20 May 2023 05:30

Credit

Role Contributor
Producer Gareth Edwards

Broadcasts

  • Thu 25 Nov 2010 18:30
  • Mon 6 Aug 2012 11:30
  • Mon 4 Feb 2013 09:00
  • Tue 5 Feb 2013 02:00
  • Sun 10 Feb 2013 07:30
  • Sun 10 Feb 2013 22:00
  • Tue 23 Sep 2014 23:00
  • Tue 12 Apr 2016 22:30
  • Thu 14 Jun 2018 23:30
  • Mon 24 Feb 2020 22:30
  • Wed 10 Nov 2021 23:00
  • Fri 19 May 2023 09:30
  • Fri 19 May 2023 14:30
  • Fri 19 May 2023 19:30
  • Sat 20 May 2023 05:30