Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola - Sex

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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

Robyn Skeete

Mina Anwar

Anna Maxwell Martin

Lucy Moss

Yusra Warsama

Polly Thomas

Emile Zola

Dan Rebellato

Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola: Season 2 - Sex: Episode 4: Lovesick

Lovesick

Episode 4: Lovesick

Season 2 - Sex

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A young girl’s struggle to reconcile her love of God with her feelings for a young man.

A young girl’s struggle to reconcile her love of God with her feelings for a young man, dramatised by Dan Rebellato, starring Glenda Jackson, Anna Maxwell Martin and Mina Anwar.

Lovesick is the fourth drama in Emile Zola: Sex, 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 when it comes to 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. 

In episode four, Lovesick, Dide reflects on the fate of Angelique, the love child of the incestuous affair in the previous episode. Abandoned by her real mother and cruel foster carers, Angelique is fortunate enough to be adopted by Hubertine, a kind woman desperate to have a child. Angelique is a strange, obsessive child, inheriting much of the dangerous Macquart-Rougon traits. Dide watches helplessly as Angelique’s love of God clashes fatally with her love of a beautiful young man. Tragedy is the inevitable conclusion.

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

Cast:
Dide......................Glenda Jackson 
Angelique...............Robyn Skeete
Hubertine................Mina Anwar
Renee.....................Anna Maxwell Martin
Girl at the stream.....Lucy Moss 
St Catherine.............Yusra Warsama

Dramatised by Dan Rebellato
Sound Designer: Eloise Whitmore

Produced and Directed by Polly Thomas
Executive Producer: Melanie Harris
Series Producer: Susan Roberts

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The drama serialisation of Emile Zola's epic family Rougon-Macquart series continues.

Glenda Jackson returns as Dide, the matriarch to a family of wolves as Oliver Emanuel's drama serialisation of Emile Zola's epic family Rougon-Macquart series continues.

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