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Magwitch is mortally wounded while trying to escape and is sent to the prison hospital. There together with Pip, he meets his daughter, Estella for the first and last time.

This has been an Our Kid and Me Production in partnership with Springline Radio Players.

Pip arranges for safe passage for Magwitch but is betrayed and his benefactor is captured by the Kings Men.

Pip travels back to Satis House to discover the secret of Estella and then returns to London to discover the truth behind Miss Havisham and his fortune.

Magwitch makes plans to settle in the City of London and Pip learns how he was betrayed which set him on the criminal path that led him to prison and deportation to Australia.

Magwitch illegally returns from abroad and announces that he is Pip's secret benefactor. Pip with the help of Herbert Pocket and Wemmick embark on a plan to save Magwitch from prison and remove him abroad but they are betrayed.

Pip meet Herbert Pocket and Wemmick, the clerk to Jaggers and establishes himself as a “Gentleman”.

Pip travels to London where he meet Jaggers, a lawyer who helps him begin his journey to become a gentleman. He grows increasingly fond of Estella but neglects to maintain contact with his family.

After working as a blacksmith's apprentice for a number of years, Pip grows up and is one day informed that he has come into a great deal of money. He assumes that this has come from Miss Havisham. The lawyer, Jaggers meets him and sets him on his way to the city of London.

Pip goes to Satis House where he meets the eccentric Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella. He returns on several occasions and meets people that will feature in his future life in the city of London.

Our audio play, "Great Expectations" was written by Charles Dickens in 1860 and 1861.

It is presented in ten episodes with the first five episodes being released each day from Monday to Friday with the remaining five episodes all available the following day, Saturday.

The mid-19th century was a time of great social change in Britain. There was increasing movement from the countryside to the towns, education was slowly improving and the legal system was being changed. The novel reflects such changes and follows the childhood and young adult years of Pip a blacksmith's apprentice in a country village. He suddenly comes into a large fortune (his great expectations) from a mysterious benefactor and moves to London where he enters high society.

The young Pip meets and assists the escaped convict Magwitch on the marshes near his home where he lives with his sister and Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith.