2/3. Coupeau's drinking is becoming a problem and Gervaise gets into debt. She tries to forget her worries with a feast for her birthday. It's a riot of a success, until her former lover, Lantier, reappears. A startling, moving and honest account of life in working class
Paris in the mid-19th century by Emile Zola , translated by Leonard Tancock and dramatised by Diana Griffiths.
Director Pauline Harris Repeated from Sunday