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Simenon,Georges - The Other Simenon - Adapted by Ronald Frame.txt
The Other Simenon - Stories without Maigret
BBC Radio 4 - Afternoon Drama
Georges Simenon is best known for Maigret but he published scores of other novels - many of them tough, gripping and psychologically-penetrating dissections of small lives confounded by fate and circumstance.
Dramatised by Ronald Frame
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Pilot - 2010
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2010-12-17 - Striptease
From the 1958 novel set in a night club in Cannes. Celita is the mistress of the club owner - but she faces a younger rival for her lover's affections when he hires a sensational new dancer.
Celita ................... Claire Knight
Mme Florence ............ Gayanne Potter
Leon / Priest ............... Simon Tait
Count / Justin ............. Greg Powrie
Mrie-Lou ................... Lesley Hart
Mme Leroy .................. Lesley Hart
Natasha ..................... Kim Gerard
Police voice ..... James Anthony Pearson
Ludo ............. James Anthony Pearson
Nurse ................ Patricia Kavanagh
Francine ............. Patricia Kavanagh
Clerk .................. Nicola Jo Cully
Maud ................... Nicola Jo Cully
Produced by Bruce Young
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Series 1 - 2011 (Repeated 2012)
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1 - 2011-07-27 - In Case of Emergency
The story of the obsessive affair between a lawyer and a jewel thief. When her plan to rob a jeweller's shop goes wrong, Yvette - young, beautiful and dangerously impulsive - asks middle-aged lawyer, Lucien, to defend her in court. When he wins the case they begin an affair but he discovers that Yvette has a boyfriend who has no intention of giving her up.
Lucien .................. Jimmy Chisholm
Yvette .................... Lisa Gardner
Viviane .................. Sarah Collier
Jeanine ................... Laura Smales
Secretary ................. Laura Smales
Mazetti .................... Kenny Blyth
Inspector .................. Kenny Blyth
Produced and directed by Bruce Young
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2 - 2011-08-03 - The Little Man from Archangel
The tragic tale of a bookseller whose wife goes missing. When Gina fails to come home one night, Jonas Milk tells his inquisitive neighbours that she's visiting a friend. But the gossips in this small country town know Gina has been having flagrant affairs and when it becomes clear that she's disappeared the bookseller is drawn into a nightmare of police enquiries and painful discoveries.
Jonas .................. Steven McNicoll
Supt Devaux ............. Crawford Logan
Gina .................. Francesca Dymond
Fredo ...................... Kenny Blyth
Le Bouc .................... Kenny Blyth
Angele .................. Eliza Langland
Berthe .................. Eliza Langland
Louis ....................... Gavin Kean
Pepito ...................... Gavin Kean
Produced and directed by Bruce Young
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3 - 2011-08-10 - The Cat
A black comedy about a couple whose marriage has foundered. Conversation between Emile and Marguerite has given way to a mute exchange of vicious notes, a shared life to separate beds and separate larders. Meanwhile the sudden deaths of two cherished family pets - a poisoned cat and a murdered parrot - block all attempts at reconciliation. Emile, at the end of his tether, packs his bags and chooses freedom - but he quickly makes a discovery that, even when affection has gone, a powerful bond still unites a man and his wife.
Emile .................. Christian Rodska
Marguerite .................. Joanna Tope
Nelly ....................... Irene Allan
Madame Martin ........ Carol Ann Crawford
Nurse ................ Carol Ann Crawford
Patron ................... Mark McDonnell
Professor ................ Mark McDonnell
Produced and directed by Bruce Young
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Series 2
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1 - 2012-11-01 - Teddy Bear
A successful society gynaecologist Chabot tries to escape the boredom of his life by starting a second affair, but he gets more than he bargained for.
Chabot ....................... David Holt
Barnacle / Lambert ........ Robert Blythe
David / Milkulski .............. Joe Sims
Viviane ..................... Liza Sadovy
Christine ............. Christine Absalom
Emma .................. Amie Burns Walker
Produced and directed by David Ian Neville
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2 - 2012-11-08 - The Neighbours
In The Neighbours, Emile Jovis, the director of a Paris travel agency, finds that moving home doesn't always make for a better life. Acting from the best possible motives he decides to uproot his family from their dilapidated flat in the Marais district of Paris to a new development outside the city. All too soon, however, he becomes aware that his wife and son do not share his enthusiasm. And his peace of mind is shattered when he overhears a series of blunt and brusque conversations coming from his neighbours' flat. His irritation on hearing their voices leads to an obsessive interest in their world.
Emile ...................... Jamie Glover
Blanche .................... Robin Weaver
Alain ..................... Sam Alexander
Irene ..................... Alison Pettit
Leon .......................... Ben Crowe
Neighbour ...................... Joe Sims
Neighbour ................... Alex Rivers
Produced and directed by David Ian Neville
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3 - 2012-11-15 - The Venice Train
The Venice Train is a classic Simenon study of anxiety. Justin Calmar returns early from holiday. On board the express train to Paris he is asked by a stranger to deliver a briefcase to an address in Lausanne. He subsequently makes two discoveries: the first, that there is a dead body in the apartment, the second that the suitcase contains a fortune in paper currency. He flees, on the next rapide to Paris condemning himself to an existence of lies and fear, with seemingly no way out.
Justine Calmar ................ Paul Bown
Dominique ................. Clare Corbett
Stranger ................. Crawford Logan
Jouve ...................... Carl Prekopp
Secretary ................. Susie Riddell
Produced and directed by David Ian Neville
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Series 3 - 2014
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1 - 2014-05-30 - A New Lease of Life
In A New Lease Of Life Maurice Dudon, a reclusive bachelor, who works as an accountant with no emotional or private life except for furtive and ritualistic visits to a prostitute every Friday finds his life changing after he is seriously injured in a car accident. In a private nursing home he forms a growing relationship with a nurse. But is it all fate or is his life being manipulated?
Maurice Dudon ............... Alun Raglan
Anne-Marie ................ Selina Boyack
Philippe Lacroix-Gibet .. Richard Addison
Madam ................... Eliza Langlands
Mother .................. Eliza Langlands
Monsieur Mallard ...... Michael Mackenzie
Priest ........................ Kirk Bage
Produced and directed by David Ian Neville
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2 - 2014-06-06 - Three Beds in Manhattan
In Three Beds in Manhattan a French actor, in New York to get over a scandal, meets a divorcee in a bar. They spend the night together and find it hard to separate. Roaming the Manhattan streets, hitting its late-night dives, Francois and Kay struggle to understand what it is that has brought them together. Will their relationship endure?
Francois ................. Michael Maloney
Kay ........................ Clare Corbett
Laugier ..................... David Seddon
Hourvitch .................... Dan Starkey
Produced and directed by David Ian Neville
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3 - 2014-06-13 - The Confessional
The Confessional centres on teenager Andre Bar. By rights he should be happy and contented. He has doting parents, he lives in the opulent setting of the Cote d'Azur, he has no troubles in school, and he has a sympathetic girlfriend, Francine. But all is by no means well. His parents dislike each other intensely and he is in the force-field of their tensions, battling to preserve his integrity and sanity.
Mother ...................... Haydn Gwynne
Father .................. Nicholas Farrell
Young Andre ................ Arthur Hughes
Older Andre ................. Carl Prekopp
Francine ..................... Jo Woodcock
Noemie .................. Jane Whittenshaw
Madam Jeanne ............ Jane Whittenshaw
Natasha .................... Lucy Paterson
Produced and directed by David Ian Neville
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