Madame Bovary

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: 6. The Affairs

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

6. The Affairs

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 6. The Affairs

Doctor's wife Emma embarks on a series of affairs to escape provincial life.

Doctor's wife Emma embarks on a series of affairs to escape provincial life. Stars John Hurt, Sarah Smart and Jude Akuwudike.

Beautiful Emma Bovary is planning to elope with her lover, Rodolphe.

Gustave Flaubert's French masterpiece of betrayal and wantonness - the first great novel of adultery.

Narrated by John Hurt.

Dramatised in ten parts by Diana Griffiths - from Margaret Mauldon's translation.

Narrator .... John Hurt
Charles .... Conrad Nelson
Emma .... Sarah Smart
Rodolphe Boulanger .... Jude Akuwudike 
Madame Bovary Snr .... Brigit Forsyth
Monsieur Lheureux .... Seamus O'Neill 
Felicite .... Sarah Jane Hallworth 

Producer: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2006.

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