Dolce
by Irene Nemirovsky
Adapted by Penny Leicester in five episodes.
First broadcast from 20060814 to 20060818. (Woman's Hour)
Irene Nemirovsky's depiction of France under occupation, written in 1942 - months before her arrest and death in Auschwitz.
NOTE: This was the second book in Suite Francaise and follows some minor characters from the first book, A Storm In June, which was produced for the BBC as a 10-part reading. Suite Francaise was planned as a 5-book series, but only two books were written due to the author's murder.
20060814
In the spring of 1941, a German regiment is billeted in a rural French village. In the Angellier household, two warring women pack away the good linen, lock up the piano and prepare to meet the enemy face to face.
20060815
The German officers settle into their billets. The villagers must find a way to live alongside them, however uncomfortable it proves.
20060816
Lieutenant Bruno von Falk brings something new into the shuttered and forbidding Angellier home.
Benoit Sabarie....Stuart Mcloughlin
Lt Bonnet....Stuart Mcloughlin
Lt Bruno Von Falk....James D'arcy
Lucille Angellier....Eve Best
Madame Angellier....Deborah Findlay
Madelaine Sabarie....Alex Tregear
Viscountess De Montmort....Teresa Gallagher
Narrator....Sian Thomas
1-3 of 5
Replies
Dolce by Irene Nemirovsky
20060817
Despite herself, and her mother-in-law, Lucille finds herself drawn ever closer to Bruno - but the wider world is hard to keep at bay.
20060818
Lucille is forced to take sides.
4-5 of 5 and Trailer
Nemirovsky - Dolce 4of5.mp3
Nemirovsky - Dolce 5of5.mp3
Nemirovsky - Dolce - trail.mp3