Bleak Expectations march09
pen and watercolour
Click on the picture above to see the whole thing HUGE (4000 pixels wide) in a new window. Yes, all 53 major characters from Mark Evans' BBC Radio 4 Dickensian sitcom Bleak Expectations are included. I stupidly decided to draw this before learning there will be a third series and therefore at least six more characters played by Geoffrey Whitehead to add to the illustration. I have numbered all the characters and will explain them in a second. You can buy both series on CD now and I strongly suggest you do. It is perfection. Amazon
- General Sternbeater (actually a good guy)
- Restauranteur Sternbeater (Secret Opium Den proprietor)
- Moneylender Sternbeater
- Right Honorable Sternbeater (Politician)
- Emmett Sternbeater (Railway builder)
- Dr Francis N. Sternbeater (mad scientist)
- Judge Hardthrasher (with his sheep)
- Governess Hardthrasher (definitely a woman)
- Beadle Hardthrasher
- Admiral Hardthrasher (almost entirely made of wood)
- Dr Hardthrasher (Mental Asylum owner)
- Mr Hardthrasher (Headmaster of St Bastard's School for Boys)
- Harry and Pippa Biscuit's 23 sons, named after the English virtues: Capability
- Sobriety
- Bravery
- Nobility
- Punctuality
- Good Spelling
- Charm
- Civility
- Manners
- Feistiness
- Likes Tea
- Hates French
- Loves Latin
- Prays Hard
- Doesn't Spit in the Street
- Complains Not
- Tasty
- Yummy
- Delicious
- Happy
- Sleepy
- Grumpy
- Exploit the Colonies (the youngest)
- Mr Gently Benevolent (The evilest man in the World)
- Ripely Fecund (and her dreams of Ottery love)
- Our hero Pip Bin and his marvelous invention
- Crap inventor Harry Biscuit
- His wife Pippa Bin (and her anvil, she is seen her shoeing a goose)
- Mr Skinflint Parsimonious (ironically the most generous of men- deceased)
- Flora Diesearly (Pip's first wife)
- Poppy Bin (with hot soup from either Jesus or Satan in a Jesus costume)
- Aunt Lily
- Her Identical twin sister, Agnes Bin, the children's mad mother
- Her briefly-lost-to-opium husband Thomas Bin
- Mr Wyckham-Post-Forburton-etc... (A lawyer with a 20 minute long name, charges by the hour)
- Bakewell Avertwitch (an escaped convict)
- Rev. Fecund
- Sir Philip Bin (our storyteller and hero's older self)
- Servewell (a butler)
- Lily (Sir Philip's daughter)
- Sourquill (A journalist and later a son-in-law)
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