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Supporting Content

• Meet the actors and their characters in Radio 4's acclaimed cycle of Emile Zola dramas.

  

• Aunt Dide (Glenda Jackson) and Aristide (Samuel West) get down to brass tacks...

  

• The generations roll on (in and out of wedlock) in the Paris-based family dynasty.

  

• The Life and Work of Emile Zola

  Glenda Jackson presents a documentary in Paris about influential French writer Emile Zola.

  

  Duration: 30:00

• Who's who in this family dynasty of politicians, thieves, murderers and prostitutes.

  

• Find out who's related to whom in this polluted family dynasty.

  

• Behind the Scenes: Music

  Musician and Composer David Tobin on Zola, Production Music and Storytelling

  

  Duration: 4:00

• A look at some great matriarchs in drama and real life.

  

• Profile: Glenda Jackson

  The actress and former MP features in Radio 4's series on people in the headlines.

  

  Duration: 13:00

• Exploring Emile Zola - defender of truth

  

• Elizabeth Boag on Clotilde's courage in the face of society's disapproval...

  Elizabeth Boag reflects on her Zola character and the impact of Dide, the matriarch...

  Duration: 2:22

• Robert Jack on playing the "pompous, self-righteous" Eugene Macquart

  Robert Jack is thrilled to have the chance to play the Machiavellian Eugene Macquart.

  Duration: 0:58

• "We've run out of books!" – Oliver Emanuel on making up an episode...

  Oliver Emanuel on how he made up a Zola episode not based on a Rougon-Macquart novel...

  Duration: 1:55

• Lavinia Murray: how dramatising Zola changed me as a writer

  Dramatist Lavinia Murray reveals how working on Zola affected her approach to writing...

  Duration: 1:53
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• Who's Who in Zola: Money

• Glenda Jackson Gallery

• Behind the Scenes: A Day in Studio

• Blood and Sex: The Macquart Family Line
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