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Candide

Episode 5

Duration: 14 minutes

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

Voltaire’s witty 18th century novel of ideas about good and evil takes its eponymous hero on an epic, picaresque journey through Europe and South America. In this final episode, Candide hatches a plan to rescue Cunégonde and is reunited with an old friend. Abridged by Robin Brooks and read by Adrian Scarborough.
Producer: Bruce Young. Repeated at 1045pm. Show less

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