Jezebel

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Frances Barber

Keziah Joseph

Anna Francolini

Victoria Brazier

Conrad Nelson

Natasha Cowley

Pauline Harris

Irene Nemirovsky

Sandra Smith

Ellen Dryden

Jezebel by Irene Nemirovsky: Episode 2

Jezebel by Irene Nemirovsky

Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Jezebel by Irene Nemirovsky, Episode 2

Gladys is so obsessed with hiding her age she will stop at nothing, including murder. 

Gladys, jailed for murdering a younger man, delves into the past as an 18 year old woman.  Stars Frances Barber.

Gladys, an older woman, obsessed with her lost youth and looks, has been imprisoned for murdering a younger man.     She delves into key moments in her past that led to the murder.  Early 1900's,  18 year old Gladys, is left alone with her cousin's husband, Claude, and discovers for the first time her power as a woman.  

Gladys ........ Frances Barber
Younger Gladys ....... Keziah Joseph
Némirovsky ...... Anna Francolini
Teresa ....... Victoria Brazier
Claude/Richard Eysenach ....... Conrad Nelson
Marie-Therese ...... Natasha Cowley
Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris 

Jezebel by Irène Némirovsky 
Translated by Sandra Smith
Dramatised by Ellen Dryden

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.

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Drama set in 1900s France adapted from Irene Nemirovsky's novella about Gladys Eysenach.

Drama set in 1900s France adapted from Irene Nemirovsky's novella about Gladys Eysenach, an older woman so obsessed with her lost youth, she will stop at nothing, including murder.

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