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6. The Affairs

Doctor's wife Emma embarks on a series of affairs to escape provincial life. Stars John Hurt, Sarah Smart and Jude Akuwudike.

Beautiful Emma Bovary is planning to elope with her lover, Rodolphe.

Gustave Flaubert's French masterpiece of betrayal and wantonness - the first great novel of adultery.

Narrated by John Hurt.

Dramatised in ten parts by Diana Griffiths - from Margaret Mauldon's translation.

Narrator .... John Hurt
Charles .... Conrad Nelson
Emma .... Sarah Smart
Rodolphe Boulanger .... Jude Akuwudike
Madame Bovary Snr .... Brigit Forsyth
Monsieur Lheureux .... Seamus O'Neill
Felicite .... Sarah Jane Hallworth

Producer: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in September 2006.

15 minutes

Last on

Tue 3 Oct 2023 02:15

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