by Emile Zola
translated by Leonard Tancock
Dramatised in five parts by David Hopkins
March 1867, a bitter winter in Northern France. Unemployment is high and Etienne Lantier is walking through France looking for work. He arrives at the mine of Le Voreux. The work is hard, poorly paid and dangerous - but he is desperate.
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