By Daphne du Maurier, dramatised by Michelene Wandor.
The young Madame la Marquise is away on holiday - alone and bored. But then she meets the local photographer and feels the thrill of being looked at. A classic du Maurier tale featuring an illicit, slow-burning passion and a surprise twist.

Madame is flattered by the attentions of the handsome man behind the camera. She is also very bored...

The Little Photographer 2.15pm R4
Take one spoilt thirty-something wealthy wife, left in a French seaside hotel for the summer while her husband attends to business in Paris, who's so bored that she spends a whole morning just trying out different colours of nail varnish. Introduce a handsome tanned Gallic photographer in an open-necked white shirt. Bear in mind that this is an adaptation of a story by that queen of the darkest of melodramas, Daphne du Maurier, and you won't be surprised to learn that you're in for an afternoon of sex, death and blackmail. But it's also a nice change to settle down to a story where the lead female character is an utter bitch: after a couple of weeks of romping she decides that the only real pleasure left is to find fault with her pretty but pathetic lover. (Jane Anderson)