Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Mary Orr

Professor of French at the University of Southampton

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CultureCensored booksNovels first published in serial formNovels about adulteryFemale characters in literatureFrench novels adapted into filmsNovels set in 19th-century FranceRealist novelsNovels about suicideFrench novels adapted into operas

  1. Madame Bovary

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the literary sensation caused by the trial for indecency of Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary.

    12 July 2007

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    Also featuring: Andy Martin, Robert Gildea

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    CultureCensored booksNovels first published in serial formNovels about adulteryFemale characters in literatureFrench novels adapted into filmsNovels set in 19th-century FranceRealist novelsNovels about suicideFrench novels adapted into operas