The complete collected series 1-5 from the gloriously daft Victorian Romp, Bleak Expectations.

Gasp in the bad Mr Gently Benevolent, played by Mr Anthony Mind! Weep at the studies of our young hero Pip Bin, performed by Expert Tom Allen! Be moved to joy and sorrow from the remarkable narration of Mr Richard Johnson! Swoon in the delicate beauty of Pip’s poor Mama, played by Miss Celia Imrie! Question in the thespian prowess of Mr Geoffrey Whitehead as six different siblings! Stick to the remarkable about Bleak Targets: The complete BBC Radio 4 series adventures of young Pip Bin as he challenges to save himself and his sisters from your strategies of his bad and badly-named guardian Mr Lightly Benevolent, and the blood-curdling Hardthrasher family members.

Immerse yourself in a timeless epic featuring terrifying schools, a whole lot worse prisons, opium dens, disguises, court-cases, shipwrecks, underwater squirrels and swash-buckling long-lost aunts. Enjoy the many fine quips, people and scenarios compiled by Mr. Mark Evans and made by Mr. Gareth Edwards, previously famous for their workmanship on the functions of Messrs. Mitchell and Webb.

Series 1: Televised as ‘The Bleak Aged Shop of Stuff’ within the BBC. Episodes: A Youth Cruelly Kippered, An Adolescence Absolutely Trashed, A Youngsters Utterly Crocked, A Young Adult Bitterly Dismantled, A Young Like Mercilessly Dismembered, A Existence Sadly Smashed after that happily restored A LITTLE.

Series 2: A Happy Existence Cruelly Re-Kippered, A Re-kippered Existence Smashed Some More, A Recovery Made Miserable, A Repair Re-Ruined Only Even Worse, An Already Bed Life COMPOUNDED But Type of deliberately, A Happy Existence Broken and then Mended A LITTLE.

Series 3: A PLEASANT Lifestyle Re-Kippered Again ONCE AGAIN, A Today Grim Existence Yet More Grimmified, Sort of Fine Existence De-niced Completely, AN AWFUL Life Un-ruined and Re-ruined Again, An Bad Life Type of Explined, Lives Shed, Ruined Wrecked and Redeemed.

Series 4: A Tolerable Lifestyle De-Happified, A New-Spoiled Existence Smashed EVEN MORE, A Wretched Lifestyle Made Much Much Sadder, A Painful Lifestyle Re-Miserablised, A Today Tricky Existence Woefully Miseried Up, A Lifestyle Destroyed then Repaired and Re-Happied.

Series 5: A Pleasant Yet Dull Lifestyle Re-Evilled, A Re-Excited Existence Made Distinctly Dangerous, An Alrightish Lifestyle Savagely Frozen to Pieces, A Writerly Lifestyle Made Dreadfully Different, A Terrifying Lifestyle Made Even Scarier a Bit EVEN MORE, A Loved-Up Life Potentially Totally Annihilated.