Madame Bovary

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: 8. Torment

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

8. Torment

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 8. Torment

As Emma embarks on a passionate affair, her lover Leon becomes troubled.

As Emma embarks on a passionate affair, her lover Leon becomes troubled. Stars John Hurt, Sarah Smart and James D'Arcy.

Emma's sweet murmurs and kisses ravish Léon's soul, but there seems to Leon something shadowy and ominous slipping between them.

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

Narrated by John Hurt.

Dramatised by Diana Griffiths from Margaret Mauldon's translation.

Narrator ...... John Hurt
Charles ...... Conrad Nelson
Emma ...... Sarah Smart
Monsieur Homais ...... David Fleeshman 
Leon Dupuis ...... James D'Arcy 
Monsieur Lheureux ...... Seamus O'Neill
Justin ...... Sam Curtis

Producer: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2006.

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