After three unhappy years of studying law in Paris, an epileptic attack ushered him into a life of writing. Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821, the son of a distinguished surgeon and a doctor's daughter. Monsieur Rouault/Maître Guillaumin – Russell Dixonĭramatised by Diana Griffiths from a translation by Margaret Mauldonįirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 4-15 September 2006 Read more Details Exhausted from her debts and her affairs, she feels she is left with only one course of action…Ī French masterpiece of betrayal and wantonness, Flaubert’s notorious novel features Sarah Smart as Emma Bovary, Conrad Nelson as Charles, Jude Akuwudike as Rodolphe and James D’Arcy as Léon. But when Dupuis moves away, her memories of him lead her to despair – and into the arms of wealthy landowner, Rodolphe Boulanger.Īs she moves from one illicit liaison to another, Emma’s complicated life begins to unravel.

He's happy for the first time in his life – but Emma is distraught that her marriage lacks the passion and romance of her fantasies.ĭazzled by the splendour of a Marquis’ ball, she longs for excitement and soon becomes infatuated with a young solicitor, Léon Dupuis. John Hurt stars in this BBC radio dramatisation of Gustave Flaubert’s infamous tale of adultery and tragedyīeautiful Emma meets and marries Doctor Charles Bovary.

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