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Episode 1: Performance

1. Performance. A girl from the streets becomes a star. Dramatised from the work of Emile Zola by Oliver Emanuel.

Blood Sex and Money, an epic 24 hours of drama inspired by the works of literature’s greatest whistle blower, Emile Zola.

Season 2. Sex. Episode 1. Performance.

A story of sexual desire and the birth of a celebrity dramatised by Oliver Emanuel.

Glenda Jackson returns as Dide, the matriarch to a family of wolves – the Rougon- Macquarts - and drawing us into the decadence and degradation of 19th Century France.

Nana’s been living and working on the dangerous streets of Paris when a theatre manager buys her for the night and realizes just how potent she could be.

Cast:

Dide … Glenda Jackson
Nana…Holliday Grainger
Mignon…Ben Batt
Fauchery… John Catterall
Copeau…David Crellin
Rose…Kimberly Hart-Simpson
Paul…Reece Noi
Satin… Kate O’Flynn

Directed by Kirsty Williams

57 minutes

Last on

Sat 19 Sep 2020 15:00

Credits

Role Contributor
Dide Glenda Jackson
Nana Holliday Grainger
Mignon Ben Batt
Fauchery John Catterall
Copeau David Crellin
Rose Kimberly Hart-Simpson
Paul Reece Noi
Satin Kate O'Flynn
Director Kirsty Williams
Author Emile Zola
Adaptor Oliver Emanuel

Broadcasts

  • Sat 7 May 2016 14:30
  • Sat 19 Sep 2020 15:00

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