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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: Episode 1: 1. The Marriage

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

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Episode 1: 1. The Marriage

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

1. The Marriage

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 1. The Marriage

Beautiful Emma meets and marries Doctor Bovary, but is distraught over the lack of passion

Beautiful Emma meets and marries Doctor Bovary, but she is distraught over the lack of passion and excitement. Stars John Hurt.

Beautiful Emma meets and marries Doctor Charles Bovary. 

He's happy for the first time in his life - unlike Emma, who's distraught that her marriage lacks the passion and excitement of her fantasies. 

Gustave Flaubert''s1856 French masterpiece of betrayal and wantonness - the first great novel of adultery.

Narrated by John Hurt 

Dramatised in ten parts by Diana Griffiths  -  from Margaret Mauldon's translation.

Narrator    ......    John Hurt
Charles    ......    Conrad Nelson
Emma    ......    Sarah Smart
Madame Bovary Snr    ......    Brigit Forsyth
Monsieur Rouault    ......    Russell Dixon 

Producer: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2006.

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