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Episode 8: Lust

8. Lust. A story of insatiable desire. Dramatised from the work of Emile Zola by Lavinia Murray.

Blood Sex and Money, an epic 24 hours of drama inspired by the works of literature’s greatest whistle blower, Emile Zola.

Season 2. Sex. Episode 8. Lust

A story of quenchless desire dramatised by Lavinia Murray.

Octave Mouret runs The Ladies Paradise – the greatest shop in Paris. But no matter its success, he’s never satisfied.

Glenda Jackson stars as Dide the matriarch to a family of wolves – the Rougon- Macquarts.

Cast:

Dide … Glenda Jackson
Octave … Jack Lowden
Bourdouncle ...Christopher Bisson
Baudu/Haussmann ... David Fleeshman
Mrs Desforges … Shobna Gulati
Clara … Zoe Iqbal
Denise … Katie West

Directed by Kirsty Williams

57 minutes

Last on

Sat 26 Sep 2020 15:00

Credits

Role Contributor
Dide Glenda Jackson
Octave Jack Lowden
Bourdouncle Christopher Bisson
Baudu David Fleeshman
Haussmann David Fleeshman
Mrs Desforges Shobna Gulati
Clara Zoe Iqbal
Denise Katie West
Director Kirsty Williams
Author Emile Zola
Adaptor Lavinia Murray

Broadcasts

  • Sat 14 May 2016 14:30
  • Sat 26 Sep 2020 15:00

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