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The Other Simenon

Episode 2: Three Beds in Manhattan

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

The second of three new dramatisations by Ronald Frame of stories by Georges Simenon.

When he wasn't writing Maigret, Georges Simenon produced a huge body of novels, often tough, gripping and psychologically-penetrating dissections of lives confounded by fate. In The Other Simenon we explore three more of his intriguing tales.

In Three Beds in Manhattan a French actor, in New York to get over a scandal, meets a divorcee in a bar. They spend the night together and find it hard to separate. Roaming the Manhattan streets, hitting its late-night dives, Francois and Kay struggle to understand what it is that has brought them together. Will their relationship endure? Show less

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