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4 Extra Debut. A middle-aged lawyer and an impulsive jewel thief begin an obsessive affair, but she has a boyfriend. Stars Jimmy Chisholm.

Georges Simenon, best known for Maigret, published scores of other novels, often tough, gripping and psychologically-penetrating dissections of small lives confounded by fate. Ronald Frame dramatises three of these stories beginning with the obsessive affair between a lawyer and a jewel thief. When her plan to rob a jeweller's shop goes wrong, Yvette - young, beautiful and dangerously impulsive - asks middle-aged lawyer, Lucien, to defend her in court. When he wins the case they begin an affair but he discovers that Yvette has a boyfriend who has no intention of giving her up.

Other parts played by the cast.
Producer/director Bruce Young.

45 minutes

Last on

Tue 12 Jan 2016 21:15

Credits

Role Contributor
Lucien Jimmy Chisholm
Yvette Lisa Gardner
Viviane Sarah Collier
Jeanine Laura Smales
Secretary Laura Smales
Mazetti Kenny Blyth
Inspector Kenny Blyth
Writer Georges Simenon
Director Bruce Young
Producer Bruce Young

Broadcasts

  • Wed 27 Jul 2011 14:15
  • Wed 15 Aug 2012 14:15
  • Tue 12 Jan 2016 11:15
  • Tue 12 Jan 2016 21:15

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