Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola - Blood

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Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola

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Groundbreaking drama serialisation of all 20 novels in Zola's epic Rougon-Macquart saga.

Glenda Jackson stars as Dide, the matriarch to a family of wolves, in this groundbreaking drama serialisation of all 20 novels in Zola's epic Rougon-Macquart family saga.

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Glenda Jackson

Bryan Dick

Georgina Campbell

Richard Hand

Stephen Fletcher

David Fleeshman

Pauline Harris

Emile Zola

Martin Jameson

Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola: Season 1 - Blood: Art

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Art by Martin Jameson. A struggling artist dreams of creating new art in Paris.

Drama inspired by Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels. Claude is a talented artist determined to paint the truth around him, contrary to popular fashion, and his own 'bad blood'.

Art by Martin Jameson
Glenda Jackson stars as Dide, 104 years old, and the matriarch to a family of wolves.
Dide secretly set aside money to support her great-grandson, Claude Lantier, in his pursuit of becoming a great artist. She's hopeful that the bad blood in the family line won't taint his talent. Claude, as one of the pioneers of impressionist art, is determined to paint the truth around him, contrary to popular fashion. At the same time he's desperate to be accepted by the national salon, but when this happens, it's devastating. Continues in Masterpiece.

Dide ...... Glenda Jackson
Claude ..... Bryan Dick
Christine ..... Georgina Campbell
Pierre ..... Richard Hand
Fagerolles ..... Stephen Fletcher
Bongrand ..... David Fleeshman

Produced and directed by Pauline Harris
 
Further Info:
 
Georgina Campbell won a BAFTA for Leading Actress for her role in Murdered by My Boyfriend for BBC 3.
 
Art and the next episode, Masterpiece, are a re-versioning of Emile Zola's His Masterpiece, and a fictional account of Zola's friendship with several artists of the period, including Manet, Monet and Cézanne. The novel is an accurate and vivid portrayal of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century. Pierre, in the story, is widely acknowledged to be Zola himself.
 
First season of 24 hours of dramas inspired by the works of literature's greatest whistleblower - Emile Zola.

Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola: Season 1 - Blood

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First part of this drama serialisation of Emile Zola's epic family Rougon-Macquart saga.

Glenda Jackson stars as Dide, the matriarch to a family of wolves, in the first part of this drama serialisation of Emile Zola's epic family Rougon-Macquart saga.

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