Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola, Season 3 - Money
Swindle by Lavinia Murray
Return of the award winning series. Double Oscar winning actress Glenda Jackson, with Pippa Heywood and Mathew Horne lead this wonderfully wicked episode. Jackson stars as the 104 year old matriarch trapped in a lunatic asylum, whilst her relatives wreak havoc in their greedy endeavours to acquire and make money. Sidonie, takes in her orphaned niece, Pauline, and manages to siphon off her considerable fortune.

Dide ..... Glenda Jackson
Sidonie ...... Pippa Heywood
Lazare ...... Mathew Horne
Pauline (younger)..... Sydney Wade
Pauline (older)/Ines ....... Gracie Kelly
Louise ...... Talia Barnett
Chanteau ..... Malcolm Raeburn
Produced and directed by Pauline Harris

Further info: A radical reimagining by writer Lavinia Murray, inspired largely from the novel The Joy of Life from Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. Animals, the first episode from season one, Blood, in this epic series won the BBC Audio and Music Award for Best Drama. Show less