Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola – Money

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Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola

Drama: Relationships & Romance

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

Fenella Woolgar

Adrian Scarborough

Jonathan Tafler

Elizabeth Boag

David Bamber

Polly Thomas

Emile Zola

Dan Rebellato

Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola: Season 3 - Money: Episode 9

Episode 9

Season 3 - Money

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Aunt Dide finally escapes the asylum. Starring Glenda Jackson, dramatised by Dan Rebellato

Aunt Dide finally escapes the asylum. Starring Glenda Jackson and dramatised by Dan Rebellato, based on Emile Zola’s Rougon Macquart cycle. 

The dramatic climax of the Emile Zola: Money season, inspired by literature’s greatest ever whistle-blower and his epic saga of the Rougon Macquart families. 

Adelaide Fouque (Dide) is 104 years old, trapped in her small room in the local asylum, but omniscient as she broods over her extended family. As a young woman, she gave birth to two dynasties that exemplified French society - one legitimate, rich, powerful, obsessive and corrupt; the other illegitimate, poor, vulnerable, weak and depraved. France is on the brink of a new Empire. Her family is a turbulent mix of the good, the bad and the misguided. 

Damaged by a lifetime of seizures and her mind scarred by trauma but Dide cannot forget her family. "What did I bring into this world? Wolves... I have raised a family of Wolves... I have watched their years. I will tell their story. Crime by crime. Blood by blood." 

In this final episode, Dide escapes from the asylum and sets about stopping daughter-in-law Félicité Rougon’s unscrupulous plans to make the family rule supreme in wealth and politics across France. Her third grandson, Pascal, unites his scientific research with her family memories to publish a book that will blow the whistle on all the appalling misdeeds and weaknesses of Dide's family line. But Félicité will stop at nothing to prevent publication. When Pascal falls in love, to his great surprise, Félicité finds a chink in his armour - with disastrous results.

Dan Rebellato is a Sony nominated writer and Professor of Theatre at Royal Holloway.

Cast:
Dide.......................Glenda Jackson 
Félicité...................Fenella Woolgar
Antoine..................Adrian Scarborough
Pascal....................Jonathan Tafler
Clotilde..................Elizabeth Boag
Mayor /
Mr Grandguillot.......David Bamber

Dramatised by Dan Rebellato

Sound Designer: Eloise Whitmore
Series Producer: Susan Roberts
Executive Producer: Melanie Harris

Produced and Directed by Polly Thomas
A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4

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