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• Mon 20 May

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    Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary Episode 1

    1/10 Beautiful Emma meets and marries Doctor Bovary, but is distraught over the lack of passion

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

• Tue 21 May

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    Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary Episode 2

    2/10 The dazzling Marquis ball intensifies Emma's longing for more excitement.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

• Wed 22 May

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    Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary Episode 3

    3/10 As Emma and Charles move to a new town, she makes the acquaintance of a young solicitor.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

• Thu 23 May

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    Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary Episode 4

    4/10 Emma's memory of young solicitor Leon becomes the core of her despair.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

• Fri 24 May

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    Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary Episode 5

    5/10 Emma meets wealthy land owner Rodolphe Boulanger, and succumbs to temptation.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

• Sat 25 May

  • 21:00
    

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    Classic Serial The Mask of Dimitrios, The Origins of an Obsession

    1/2 Istanbul, 1938. A writer becomes obsessed with the life of an infamous master criminal.

    BBC Radio 4

• Sun 26 May

  • 06:00
    

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    Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary Omnibus Episode 1

    1/2 Doctor's wife Emma embarks on a series of affairs to escape provincial life.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary Omnibus Episode 1

    1/2 Doctor's wife Emma embarks on a series of affairs to escape provincial life.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Classic Serial The Mask of Dimitrios, The House of the Eight Angels

    2/2 Latimer's growing obsession with master criminal Dimitrios takes him to Geneva and Paris.

    BBC Radio 4 FM only

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• Mon 27 May

  • 10:00
    

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    Charles Dickens - Mrs Lirriper How the Parlours Added a Few Words

    2/3 The Major collates lodgers' stories for godson Jemmy, including tales of a heroic dog.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra