Madame Bovary

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: 9. Misfortune

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

9. Misfortune

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 9. Misfortune

Emma Bovary's complicated and unfulfilled life starts to unravel.

Emma Bovary's complicated and unfulfilled life starts to unravel. Stars John Hurt, Sarah Smart and Jude Akuwudike.

By dint of buying on credit and never paying, by constantly trying to fill the void in her inner life, Emma finds herself in serious trouble...

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
Emma ...... Sarah Smart
Monsieur Homais ...... David Fleeshman 
Leon Dupuis ...... James D'Arcy 
Monsieur Lheureux ...... Seamus O'Neill
Rodolphe Boulanger ...... Jude Akuwudike
Felicite ...... Sarah Jane Hallworth
Maitre Guillaumin ...... Russell Dixon

Producer: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2006.

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