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PICK OF THE BOX; Life and loves of an adulteress.(Features)

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From: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date: 20000410
Author:Dingwall, John

DRAMA

Madame Bovary

(BBC2, 9.00pm)

GUSTAVE Flaubert's novel scandalised 19th century French society because he had created in Madame Bovary a self-centred and adulterous woman.

This latest adaptation of his work for television, by Heidi Thomas, stars Australian actress Frances O' Connor as Emma Bovary.

Hugh Bonneville, who recently co-starred in Notting Hill, plays the cuckolded husband, Charles.

Emma is ...

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